Made In Chelsea star Harry Baron has shared his anger after his luxury car was stolen in broad daylight from a London street.
The 34-year-old shared CCTV footage of the brazen thieves in black clothing and hoodies breaking into his car in Chelsea before speeding away on Monday.
Baron, who starred on several seasons of the E4 show until leaving in 2020, captioned the clip on his Instagram Story: “My car being stolen in Chelsea last night - @metpolice_uk DO MORE!
“These criminals need harsher punishments and far more severe consequences @sadiq FIX LONDON!”
The former Made In Chelsea star currently works as a property broker for Chatterton Rees and frequently shares updates about his passion for luxury cars, posting photos from races and outings in various supercars.
The Met Police told The Standard that the car has since been found and returned to Baron.
A spokesperson said: “Police were called at approximately 13:40hrs on Monday, 27 May by a man reporting his car had been stolen in Chelsea at some point earlier that morning. The car was subsequently located in east London and has been returned to the owner.”
Baron’s experience comes a week after Sadiq Khan admitted that the amount of robberies in London are “too high”, as he launched a new Robbery Reduction Partnership to tackle the issue.
The partnership, which held its first meeting last Monday, brings together the Metropolitan Police, the Safer Business Network and the mayor’s Violence Reduction Unit, among other groups.
Data published by the Office for National Statistics shows that robbery in London has risen 57 per cent since Mr Khan took office in 2016.
While 21,604 offences were recorded in the capital in the period from April 2015 to March 2016, the figure stood at 33,951 over the 12 months of 2023.
The increase across the whole of England and Wales between the same two periods was slightly higher however, at 59 per cent.
Mr Khan told the Standard he wanted to be “tough” on the “complex causes of crime” but also on crime itself.
“That means not just revitalised neighbourhood teams [of police officers]… but also speaking to and listening to those who have got skin in the game,” he said.
“That means businesses, that means CPS [Crown Prosecution Service], youth offending teams, Transport for London, councils, City of London Police, and many others to see what we can do working together to reduce robbery.
“Robbery is too high - it’s going up across the country, it’s gone up in London. We know a large number of these robberies are of mobile phones, [stolen by] snatching. We saw last year real progress made in relation to those luxury watches [being stolen].
“So this [work] is aiming to do two things - one is to make people feel safer, and secondly it’s making sure people are safer.”
The Met said in January that two recent operations in and around Westminster had led to marked decreases in watch robberies.
The two operations - carried out in late 2022 and 2023 across South Kensington, Chelsea, Soho and Mayfair - saw undercover officers deployed as potential targets wearing expensive watch brands. Criminals who tried robbing the watches in the street were then apprehended by other undercover officers nearby.
In a speech in March, Mr Khan said the rising cost of living had helped to fuel a rise in certain forms of ‘acquisitive’ crime, like shoplifting, burglary and theft.
In October last year, the mayor and Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley convened a meeting with world-leading mobile phone companies to ask them to commit to “designing out” mobile phone robbery.
Mr Khan argued that it should be possible to reduce the incentive for stealing phones by improving the devices’ security measures - making them harder to unlock and sell on.
