In 1994, Newsroom South East’s Jonathan Beale reported on the tactics used by criminals to steal and then sell on mobile phones.
The boom in cellphones in the 1990s saw a new crime wave of phone thefts on the capital’s streets and even in people’s cars, while they were driving.
Take a look at what was being done to clamp down on phone thieves in 90s London.
Video from Newsroom South East, 1994
