Violent robbers are snatching £1million worth of watches off the wrists of visitors to London‘s West End every month.
There were 97 watch robberies, including attempted thefts, from January to June this year, totalling ‘millions of pounds of stolen property’, the Met Police said.
A further 70 expensive watches were swiped between July and September this year, with a knife ‘seen or intimated’ in 20 per cent of watch robberies in the past six months.
There were also 1,196 general robberies across Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster between January and June 2026.
The figures emerged during the Southwark Crown Court sentencing hearing
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