This is the dramatic moment a have-a-go hero tackles a machete wielding robber after a smash-and-grab raid on a luxury City jewellers.
The smartly dressed City worker leaps on the back of the raider in the middle of a crowded street in front of lunchtime shoppers yesterday.
The brave man struggles with the raider who then pulls the two foot long machete from his trousers and wields it menacingly over his head.
The extraordinary drama unfolded outside the exclusive Carr Watches and Diamonds store in Liverpool Street at 2.30pm yesterday.
The man leaps on the raider's back as he fled the shop in Farringdon Dramatic footage taken by a passer-by on a camera phone also shows a police officer in plain clothes drive his unmarked car at the scooter raiders in an attempt to block their escape.
The unarmed City of London police officer - who was on duty and passing the scene by chance - also chases after the man but is forced to retreat after he too is threatened with the machete.
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