London’s Most Notorious Phone Snatcher Jailed

Published on August 13, 2024

A man who stole 24 mobile phones in one morning while riding through London on an electric motorcycle has been jailed for two years. Police dubbed Sonny Stringer, 28, the city’s most notorious phone snatcher after he and an unknown accomplice had torn through central London riding electric motorbikes, snatching phones out of people’s hands on the morning of March 26. Stringer was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court to 20 months in prison and was given an additional four months for dangerous driving, with police crediting the team effort from officers on the ground and those in the control room for apprehending the suspect which resulted in the successful conviction....