Moment police swoop on sword-wielding teenage robbers in London

Evening Standard

This is the moment police swooped on a gang of samurai sword-wielding teenagers suspected of carrying out dozens of robberies on the London Underground and trains.  Detectives believed the six - all under 18 - are linked to 51 offences where mobile phones and luxury watches were snatched in just two months across east London.The Standard had been invited to join scores of officers - many in riot gear - as the family home of a 15-year-old boy was raided in Newham just before 3am.

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00:00The purpose of operations like this is to demonstrate that if individuals do

00:06come on the network to commit such offenses we will track you down, we will

00:10be executing warrants at your addresses and we will be coming after you with the

00:15aim of putting you before the courts. Police have swooped on a gang of sword

00:20wielding teenagers suspected of carrying out dozens of robberies on the London

00:25underground and trains. Detectives believe six teenagers all under 18 are

00:31responsible for 51 offenses across East London. We've got an ongoing investigation

00:37into a number of robberies that have been committed on the transport network and a

00:41number of suspects have been identified and as part of that we've executed four

00:45search warrants at different addresses this morning and we've arrested four

00:49individuals on suspicion of robbery. In addition to that in connection with the

00:54discovery of a sword at one of the addresses, a fifth person has been

00:58arrested in connection with that. The Standard was invited to join officers, many

01:03in riot gear, as they raided the home of a 15 year old in Newham at 3 a.m.

01:09They stormed through the front door ordering occupants to show their hands.

01:12Body-worn footage shows police finding a samurai sword in his brother's bedroom.

01:17A man's being murdered.

01:24Let's lose one.

01:25What's your name?

01:25Name.

01:26Target secure!

01:27British Transport Police

01:30alleged a teenager terrorised nine passengers between West Ham Station and

01:35Graze in Essex, trains passing through Bromley by Bow and on the Docklands Light

01:41railway services at Devons Road and Cyprus. Later, officers smashed down the door of a

01:47townhouse where a 16-year-old lives with his mother and sister in Dagenham.

02:04At a third address, a second sword was seized.

02:11Today, we've had two swords that have been recovered that they've had in their bedrooms.

02:19One of the offences, I believe, did he actually involve a sword as well. So it's quite good

02:23that we've actually seized it. It's also quite worrying that mid-teenagers are carrying these

02:29weapons around.

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