Stunning footage has captured the terrifying second a mugger repeatedly punched a lady within the face as he stole her bag in broad daylight.
The brutal theft, which occurred because the sufferer parked her automobile in an alleyway in Lewisham, south east London on October 20 this yr, was filmed on CCTV footage.
The footage has now been launched by Met Police in attraction for details about the incident, which occurred at round 9:30am.
Within the footage, the sufferer will be seen exiting her automobile earlier than a 6ft 2 unidentified man sporting a balaclava, black coat and tracksuit bottoms, seems and punches her within the face.
The attacker can clearly be seen punching the sufferer, who’s laying on the bottom behind the automobile
He then forces her to the bottom whereas persevering with to hit her, earlier than snatching her bag and working in the direction of New Cross Highway.
The sufferer then stands up as her attacker leaves, and shortly walks again round to the entrance of her automobile earlier than the footage ends.
In response to police, the sufferer was taken to hospital with a number of facial accidents following the assault.
A Met Police spokesman mentioned: ‘The sufferer was left with a number of facial accidents and needed to be handled at hospital.’
