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Scooter gang strikes again
SCOOTER gangs with a penchant for designer handbags have struck two more times in midnight raids on luxury Mayfair shops.
The attacks on the Tanner Krolle store in New Burlington Street and Tod’s in New Bond Street came just days apart, at venues round the corner from each other.
Shopkeepers and police are powerless to stop the sledgehammer-wielding thieves, who strike in the dead of night and make their getaways on motorbikes moments later.
But despite making off with thousands of pounds worth of valuables in the past, both the attempts last week left the gang empty-handed.
A reinforced glass door was shattered in the first attack in New Burlington Street on Friday March 23 but nothing was taken.
A homeless man who was sleeping in a doorway down the street witnessed the second attempt, early on Monday morning at Tod’s luxury goods shop.
He described two scooters carrying four men pull up to the doors of the shop and start laying into them with baseball bats and poles.
When they noticed the witness they fled on their bikes down New Bond Street.
Both attacks took place in the same week as the inquest into 19-year-old gang member Mischa Niering’s death, who was killed during a high-speed chase with police as he attempted to flee a crime scene.
The inquest found that the gang, which police say have been responsible for more than 50 high-value burglaries in recent months, was “becoming more confident due to the apparent inactivity of police.”
A third Mayfair smash-and-grab attempt at the up-market shoe shop Ruco Line in South Molton Street on March 30 may also be linked to the gangs.
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