Suella Braverman calls for Oxford Street perpetrators to be ‘hunted down’

Suella Braverman

Source: Number 10

The Metropolitan Police made nine arrests yesterday as hundreds of teenagers gathered outside JD Sports as a robbery campaign went viral on Snapchat and TikTok.

A wider dispersal order covering a large area of the West End is in effect until Friday morning and the police handed out 34 dispersal orders after TikTok and Snapchat posts went viral urging users to take part in an Oxford Street robbery at JD Sports at 3pm.

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