Teenage Boy Captured 'Stealing Mobile Phone From A Charity Shop Assistant'

A boy believed to be just five years old was enlisted by two men to steal from a Cancer Research store in a distraction theft. Police are hunting the duo who distracted staff as the little lad nabbed the assistant's phone - clothing was also pilfered from the fundraising shop.

Scotland Yard released CCTV footage of one of the men instructing the boy to take the phone behind the till of the store in Wimbledon, southwest London. Another man is said to have been distracting staff.

The boy is then seen lifting up his top and stuffing the phone down the front of his trousers.

The men, who detectives wish to trace, then left the store with the shop assistant's phone and with women's clothing which they did not pay for, the Metropolitan Police said.