It’s the UK’s best known and busiest shopping street – a mile-long shop window for some of the world’s biggest retail brands.
But by night Oxford Street is increasingly being transformed into the sort of squalid slum more associated with the London of Charles Dickens than 21st century commerce.
Gangs of homeless migrant beggars have taken to sheltering in doorways and under arches along the street. One large group regularly sleeps outside the flagship branch of Marks & Spencer close to Marble Arch.
When the Daily Mail visited the street over several nights this week, among the distressing spectacles we witnessed were: two women openly using
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