A traffic cop named Jordan Smith made a heroic decision to stop a fleeing phone thief on an electric motorbike, potentially saving a mother and her young children from a serious accident.
For the festive season, Mail Plus is re-running some of your favourite pieces of the year. Happy Christmas! With the lives of a mother, her baby and young child at risk, traffic cop Jordan Smith — at the wheel of his unmarked Volvo XC90 — had to make a split-second decision. Should he knock a fleeing phone thief from his high-speed electric motorbike and face the consequences? Or just hope the e-bike — now mounting the pavement — would miss the mum and her children? PC Smith's duty was clear.
He clipped the bike with his vehicle and took out the thief, Sonny Stringer, a serial offender who had snatched an incredible 24 handsets in little over an hour. CCTV captures Stringer haring in front of a bus on his electric bike in Cheapside in the heart of London's financial district PC Smith smashes into Stringer in his marked car The PC makes the arrest with his taser 'Thieves on e-bikes will do anything to evade detection and arrest,' says PC Smith, just 25. 'And if that means endangering members of the public, then that's exactly what they'll do. 'When my partner and I first saw Stringer, he was coming round a bus and was about to mount the pavement where there was a mother holding the hand of a young child and pushing a pram. 'Those bikes can go as fast as 70 mph and they're a fair old weight, so if he'd hit the mother and her children, he could have killed or seriously injured them. 'I had to make an instant decision — but I knew immediately that it was the right thing to do.' Stringer, 28, from Islington, North London, who broke his knee during the incident in the City of London, was in August sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to ten charges of theft, dangerous driving and having no insurance, at Isleworth Crown Court in West London. Over the summer, to the delight of victims everywhere who've had their phone stolen, dashcam footage of Stringer being knocked off his e-bike went vira
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