Phone thefts halve in central London as Apple joins police crackdown to make stolen handsets 'unusuable bricks'

Mobile phone thefts have nearly halved in central London, says Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley as he told how Apple was making it harder for criminals to make money from stolen handsets.

Sir Mark explained how thieves were being thwarted by the tech giant ensuring it was more difficult for them to reset stolen devices, so they were effectively “unusable bricks”.