Young Tube passengers targeted for AirPods and £1,500 winter coats

YOUNG Londoners are being robbed of expensive winter coats and AirPods earphones in a “really concerning” increase in crime on the Tube.

- Ross Lydall

Muggers are forcing passengers to surrender their Canada Goose and North Face puffer jackets, some of which can cost £1,500 or more.

Smartphones were also being taken as the Underground suffered a 108 per cent increase in robberies and a wider 56 per cent jump in crime.

Siwan Hayward, Transport for London’s director of security, policing and enforcement, revealed that “acquisitive crime”, including thefts and pickpocketing, was “driving the increase in our overall crime rate”.