Dramatic footage showing a mobile phone thief trying to escape police by driving the wrong way on the M11 has been released as the driver and his accomplice were jailed. Hutson and Sharuk Sheraji, 22, had carried out a high-speed spree snatching phones across London in the preceding hours. They snatched 10 mobile phones from people as they were talking on them, in various locations in the boroughs of Westminster, Camden, Islington, Hackney and Tower Hamlets. The police, who gave chase by helicopter and unmarked cars, said the thieves were “easily spotted due to their visibly dangerous driving”. The case is part of Operation Attrition, the Metropolitan police’s attempt to combat a surge in moped-enabled mobile phone theft.

Source: The Guardian April 03, 2017 17:28 UTC