The ‘steaming’ flashmobs fuelling UK phone theft epidemic: How robbery gangs are ransacking stores to grab as many devices as possible before stolen handsets are sent to Africa or sold to second-hand phone shops
Britain’s phone theft epidemic is being fuelled by ‘steaming’ flashmobs bombarding their way into stores and ransacking as many devices as possible in brazen 20-second heists. Gathering in their masses, these masked gangs are bursting past helpless security guards and shoppers as they sweep up any device they can get their hands on. Dressed in…
