US EditionEx BBC Presenter Wants Security After Gang Mugged Her
Selina Scott blames Mayor Sadiq Khan for policing failures after she was mugged in broad daylight by a gang near Piccadilly, highlighting concerns over public safety and police availability.
- In a recent interview, Selina Scott told the Telegraph she blames Mayor of London Sadiq Khan for her mugging in June on Piccadilly.
- Amid criticisms of public safety, she blamed him more than the police because the West End Central police station closed four years ago, leaving no officers for her appointment.
- Amid the broad daylight incident, Scott said she was surrounded outside Hatchards bookshop by a gang in athleisurewear, hit on the leg, and had her purse stolen.
- In response to the incident, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley apologised, and City Hall funding will deliver a 50% increase in beat officers and 90 additional town centre team officers focusing on anti-social behaviour, shoplifting, and phone robbery.
- Since 2016, a spokeswoman for the mayor of London said youth knife injuries are down 26%, homicides down 17%, and gun crime down 43%.
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Selina Scott blamed London Mayor Sadiq Khan for his terrifying assault after saying that he did not keep people safe in the capital. The 74-year-old veteran transmission was "couped" and "humiliated" after a gang of thieves attacked her in broad daylight before stealing all of her valuables out of a Waterstones branch in Piccadilly in June. A few seconds after leaving the store, Mrs. Scott was beaten in the back of her right knee, leaving her fe…
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