Emma Van Der Hoek was walking home, listening to music, texting a friend, when she felt someone brush up beside her. "The next thing I know, he just snatched my phone out of my hand. It happened very ...

Three men have been jailed for a combined 25 years for handling stolen goods, following a Metropolitan Police investigation into the UK’s largest ...

LONDON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - London's Metropolitan Police this week launched an expanded fleet of e-bikes to tackle criminals committing street crimes such as phone thefts in the British capital, with ...

A gang behind the UK’s largest mobile smuggling network, which trafficked up to 40,000 stolen phones to China, has been ...

Police say up to 40,000 phones were smuggled - the equivalent of around 40% of devices stolen in London.

Police say fewer people in London are getting their phones stolen by criminals speeding by on bikes and mopeds thanks to a dedicated task force with an "eye in the sky." ...

Phone thefts across London continue to draw attention and concern from both residents and visitors. One gym is calling out crime in the popular city by launching a campaign of self-defense. The chain ...

LONDON — Sirens screamed as police vans pulled into a north London street, and shocked passersby paused to watch as officers charged into three secondhand phone shops. “Do you have a safe on your ...

After her own encounters with thieves, a reporter got to the bottom of a growing epidemic on the city’s streets. By Lizzie Dearden Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers ...