TalkTV presenter Alex Phillips has claimed a ‘little s**t on a motorcycle’ tried to steal her bag immediately in ‘broad daylight’.
The 40-year-old journalist and former politician was strolling down Oxford Street in central London when the boy grabbed her bag and ‘karate chopped’ her arm whereas she was holding her cellphone.
She stated the boy sped off after realising he must get off his bike to select up the bag which had fallen onto the ground.
Taking to social media this afternoon Alex stated: ‘A little bit sh**t on a motorcycle simply tried to mug me on Oxford St in broad daylight.
‘He grabbed at my bag and karate chopped my arm as I used to be holding my cellphone.
‘It fell to the ground which means he’d should get off his bike to grab it, so he sped off. Nobody blinked an eye fixed. London is grim.’
It comes after the Retail Sector Council, which is made up of members together with the bosses of Boots, Sainsbury’s and Primark, warned ministers that British excessive streets risked turning into ‘wastelands’ until there have been main regeneration efforts.
TalkTV presenter Alex Phillips has claimed a ‘little s**t on a motorcycle’ tried to steal her bag immediately in ‘broad daylight’
The 40-year-old journalist and former politician was strolling down Oxford Street in central London when the boy grabbed her bag and ‘karate chopped’ her arm
Taking to social media this afternoon Alex stated: ‘A little bit sh**t on a motorcycle simply tried to mug me on Oxford St in broad daylight.’
Alex’s tweet earlier this afternoon
Former Co-op chief Richard Pennycook stated: ‘If we do not incentivise regeneration, then these locations are getting hollowed out.
‘What are we collectively going to do about that? The final 5 years in Chester, Northampton, just about any massive city within the UK, this has been occurring.’
A Marks & Spencer govt additionally warned that crime charges on Oxford Street had been surging as London’s well-known purchasing district falls into disrepair.
Police and enormous teams of younger folks had been seen in Oxford Circus on August 9 after requires looting unfold on TikTok.
Shocking video from the time confirmed police wielding batons clashing with dozens of youths in Oxford Street after chaos erupted when a social media-fuelled marketing campaign to ‘rob JD Sports’ and shoplift went viral.
Large teams of younger folks seen working away from police amid the clashes on Oxford Street on August 9, 2023
Police officers attempt to cease youths as they run out of a McDonald’s restaurant on Oxford Street on August 9
Nine folks had been arrested by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of offences together with assaulting a police officer, going outfitted to steal and breaching a dispersal order on the purchasing hotspot.
Footage from the scene exhibits officers chasing after youths exterior the Microsoft retailer in Europe’s busiest purchasing road with their batons raised, with some being wrestled away by police and put in handcuffs.
Sacha Berendji, operations director of M&S stated the realm had as soon as been ‘the jewel in London’s purchasing crown’ however was now little greater than ’empty outlets, littered streets and fewer guests’.
He stated stunning scenes of social media-fuelled carnage as thugs tried to loot shops in August had been ‘one other reminder of how unhealthy issues are’.
Mr Berendji advised the Daily Telegraph: ‘The road was virtually locked down by police to stop main unrest deliberate on social media. Londoners know that one thing have to be achieved to save lots of Oxford Street.’
The chaos in central London echoes robberies and flashmob looting throughout the US lately, which has been organised by way of TikTok – whereas main cities equivalent to San Francisco and New York have gotten crime-ravaged and drug-infested.
Commenting on Alex’s submit on ‘X’, previously Twitter, one individual stated: ‘Sorry to listen to that Alex. London has certainly change into largely lawless during the last years. I can perceive you are fairly shook up.’
Another individual wrote: ‘London has been a cess pit for a number of years now. Been as soon as, obtained mugged, by no means been again (bar the airports). Sorry that occurred to you. Sadly not stunning.’
Another individual added: ‘Sorry to listen to that – I hope you’re okay.
‘Also, you’re proper, many folks not intervene and these guys know this and therefore they really feel so emboldened.’
Another individual stated: ‘Sorry to listen to that Alex. I used to work simply off Oxford Street in Berners Street and might assure I, or most of my pals who I labored with, we’d instantly have helped. Most would there then I believe…it appears that evidently now sadly Oxford St had changed into a cesspit.’