Knife-wielding moped robbers are exploiting the longer days and busier streets to target West End shoppers in a crimewave which has seen hundreds of designer watches stolen this year, police have warned.

Shocking footage emerged this week of a man and a woman having their watches violently snatched in broad daylight in Chelsea, west London, by a masked gang armed with knives.

The attack, filmed by an onlooker on Monday, shows the woman lying in a doorway trying to fend off one balaclava-clad man, while another is repeatedly punching her male companion in the face.

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