Phone thefts alert

06 May 2010

AN alert has been sounded after three people in Newham have had their mobile phones taken.

All three incidents happened on April 19. In the first, a 20-year-old man was talking on the phone in Tollgate Road, Beckton, at around 12.25am. He had just finished talking and was about to put the phone in his picket when a man snatched it from his grasp.

In the second incident in Balaam Street, Plaistow, a 17-year-old has his phone taken as he was about to put it in his pocket at 2.30pm.

The third theft was in High Street North, East Ham, when a 31-year-old man had his phone taken when he was making a call on his iPhone outside Lidl at about 9.45pm. The phone was snatched from his hand.