All news on the topic: Phone Theft

London’s resident pickpocket hunter has hit back at Sadiq Khan who said the work of vigilantes has done nothing to help lower crime in the capital.

Sir Keir Starmer has said it is "a little bit far-fetched" to suggest the theft of his former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney’s phone was in any way linked to the release of files on Lord Peter Mandelson.

London police said they have dismantled a criminal gang suspected of smuggling 40,000 stolen mobile phones to China in their largest operation against phone theft to date, resulting in 46 arrests over the last two weeks.

Watch the moment an Australian model has her phone stolen out her hand for the second time in three months - and she chases the masked thieves.

A crowd of people chanted ‘w*nker’ at an alleged would-be phone thief after he was stopped in the street in central London.