{"id":142184,"date":"2018-06-17T00:12:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T00:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/home-secretary-sajid-javid-reveals-moped-mugging\/"},"modified":"2018-06-17T00:12:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T00:12:53","slug":"home-secretary-sajid-javid-reveals-moped-mugging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/home-secretary-sajid-javid-reveals-moped-mugging\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Secretary Sajid Javid reveals moped mugging"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sajid Javid\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/24C0\/production\/_102080490_dbaf9499-f857-4014-a0a4-ac00601a29e7.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Reuters                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Home Secretary Sajid Javid has revealed he was a victim of a moped mugging in north London, shortly before he was given his latest Cabinet role.<\/p>\n<p>In a Sun on Sunday interview, Mr Javid said he reached for his phone to call a taxi outside Euston station when the thieves rode on to the pavement.<\/p>\n<p>They grabbed his phone and zoomed off, he said, leaving him &quot;angry and upset&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is now working on a review to give police more power to pursue moped thieves.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Before I knew what was happening, it (the phone) had gone,&quot; said Mr Javid, who was appointed home secretary in April.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I was angry and upset but thought myself lucky not to have been stabbed or beaten up like many other victims who fall prey to these vicious criminals.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>His revelation comes days after comedian Michael McIntyre was robbed by men on a moped in north-west London. <\/p>\n<p>The number of offences carried out by criminals using mopeds in London has increased from 827 offences in 2012 to more than 23,000 last year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moped crime: How can you protect yourself?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Data obtained by the BBC showed during that period, more than 40% of such offences happened in just two boroughs, Islington and in Camden - where Mr Javid was mugged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Reuters Home Secretary Sajid Javid has revealed he was a victim of a moped mugging in north London, shortly before he was given his latest Cabinet role. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}