Axe-wielding raiders hit City jewellers
Audacious: the gang's raid was carried in broad daylight
A gang of robbers armed with axes are being hunted by police after escaping with more than £100,000 worth of watches in a day-time raid on a City jewellers.
Four men on mopeds struck at Watches of Switzerland in the City of London's Royal Exchange yesterday afternoon.
They broke through the locked front door of the store and used axes to smash cabinets grabbing handfuls of expensive watches.
A lone customer in the store and four staff were left terrified by the raid just before 3.30pm.
As the gang sped off a City worker tried to grab one of the raiders at a zebra crossing but they escaped.
Police cornered two of the men on an industrial estate in Upper Holloway but they ran off abandoning a hold-all full of watches.
