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From behind the ghoulish mask hiding his identity, TopKat boasts of attacking innocent and unwary pedestrians using baseball bats, knives, swords and acid.
He is a new type of armed robber, one of the swarm of moped gangsters roaming our streets for easy pickings – mostly mobile phones.
“I like this stuff, get me?” he brags. “It’s easy, get me man, get paid, get me my money. I love it.”
There were over 23,000 motorcycle crimes in London alone last year – an average 63 every day.
Moped crime shot up 2,100% in the capital’s most famous shopping thoroughfare, Oxford Street.