Six robbers fled on a single moped after a smash-and-grab raid at a high-end jewellers in central London.<\/p>\n
The gang raided Mappin & Webb in Regent Street at about 19.20 BST, armed with a machete and a hammer, police said.<\/p>\n
They arrived on three scooters but abandoned one at the scene and crashed another in nearby Oxford Street.<\/p>\n
“All six” fled on the remaining moped, police said. An eyewitness told the BBC he saw three men on a single moped with a fourth “running alongside”.<\/p>\n
“Four men, one with a sledgehammer sticking out of his bag, were swerving around traffic heading towards Soho on two mopeds,” the eyewitness said.<\/p>\n
He added: “One of the mopeds must have clipped another vehicle as it crashed and came sliding towards the pavement.<\/p>\n
“The two robbers then scrambled to get on the remaining moped, but one man ended up running along side with the public giving chase.”<\/p>\n
The robbers made off with a “high-value” haul after smashing cabinets at the store. No arrests have been made, police said.<\/p>\n
A Met Police spokesman said following the Oxford Street crash “the suspects who were on that moped were then picked up before all six fled on a single remaining moped”.<\/p>\n
Mappin & Webb was founded in 1775 and customers have included Queen of France Marie Antoinette, Grace Kelly and Winston Churchill.<\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"