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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rachael Burford

E-bikes crackdown: Riders face having cycles and scooters crushed hours after offences under new laws

London phone snatchers face having their e-bikes crushed hours after they are seized in a crackdown on anti-social behaviour and electric cycle crime.

Under new government proposals, police will no longer have to warn offenders before confiscating and destroying their vehicles if they have been driven in an anti-social way or were used in thefts.

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