Pickpocket steals tourist's purse containing £400 is caught on selfie-stick footage

This is the shocking moment a female pickpocket gang were caught on camera stealing a tourist's purse in London's West End.

Nina Spencer and friend Toi were walking through Cambridge Circus towards the Palace Theatre in central London on Sunday, June 16 while making a video of themselves from a selfie stick to show friends. 

But after they had crossed the road, Toi looked inside her Louis Vuitton handbag and noticed her designer purse containing £400 in cash and her credit cards was missing.



Devastated Toi and Ms Spencer, both from Thailand, watched back their video and were shocked to see a young woman put her hand into the bag and take the purse.

She appeared to have been part of a gang of three female pickpockets and the other two women could be seen taking part in the theft. 

The theft comes amid a flurry pick-pocketing crime in London with thefts on the Underground increasing 80 per cent in the last three years, figures from the British Transport Police revealed.

Footage shows a woman in a black jumper and black sunglasses looking over Nina's shoulder while a second woman, in black leather jacket and holding a red smartphone, looks into Toi's bag. 





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