Luxury north London boutique targeted by moped smash and grab gang

 
Moped raid: Larizia was targeted by a smash and grab gang (Picture: Google Streetview)
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A suspected gang of robbers was today being held by police after a £100,000 smash-and-grab raid on an upmarket boutique.

Six men on scooters broke through metal shutters before smashing the front door of Larizia in St John’s Wood hours after it had re-opened following a refit.

The store — which sells bags, shoes, clothes and accessories by top brands including Chanel and Stella McCartney — has been targeted at least 10 times before. Six men and a woman were being quizzed after a gang made off with a haul of handbags at about 11:40pm on Monday.

A woman of 35 who called the police after seeing the raid from her window said: “They tore open the shutters then smashed a hole in the door with a concrete block before one or two crawled in and passed about 10 handbags out. Then they sped off on their bikes. It was all over in less than five minutes.”

She said the men, on two dark grey scooters and a light grey one, rode off north up St John’s High Street.

Earlier in the evening the shop owners tweeted pictures of the revamped interior with its range of luxury goods, saying: “Go check it out.”

The Flying Squad yesterday arrested five men on a street in Kentish Town on suspicion of conspiracy to rob, followed by another man and a woman at an address in Holloway.

Most of the stolen handbags were recovered, said Scotland Yard.

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