Moped Gang Ransacks Flagship Apple Store

Regent Street was Apple's first store in Europe, and has handled more than 60 million customers over the past 12 years, and will be the first store in Europe with the new design concept. Leon Neal/Getty Images

A security guard was threatened with a hammer as he tried to stop a moped gang from ransacking London’s flagship Apple store in the early hours of Monday morning.

Police said that ten thugs on five mopeds smashed their way into the Regent Street store. Two minutes later, the thieves made off with iPhones, iPads and watches worth thousands of pounds.