Last year, Sir Ratcliffe witnessed someone being stabbed to death on CCTV outside his Knightsbridge office on Brompton Road over a Rolex watch.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe has said London is 'not safe' anymore and refuses to wear a watch in the capital because he is scared he will be mugged.
'I can't wear a watch in London, and I just need to be a bit wary, a bit careful,' he told The Sunday Times. Be the first to commentBe one of the first to commentCommentsHas your perception of safety in London changed in the recent years?Comment nowLast year, boxer Amir Khan was robbed at gunpoint by two men in their 20s for his £72,000 diamond-encrusted watch as he left a restaurant in Leyton, east London. He has since moved to Dubai with his wife, feeling unsafe in London.
The London-based charity the Ben Kinsella Trust - set up in memory of 17-year-old Ben Kinsella who was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack in Islington in 2008 -surveyed almost 10,000 young people who attended its London workshops and discovered the morbid truth that a quarter thought arming themselves with a blade would protect them.
Sadiq Khan has been accused of losing control of crime in London after data revealed in April that thefts and robberies involving knives have nearly doubled since he became the Mayor of London in 2016. He said: 'We don’t have enough prison space. I mean, this didn’t just happen. We’ve been talking about the prisons being overcrowded for 10 years.'
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