TV crew’s £15k camera is stolen on the street
Thieves stole a £15,000 camera from an Australian Tv crew moments after they had finished a live broadcast in a London street.
The brazen robbery took place at 10pm on Tuesday, after reporter Laurel irving had completed a live appearance on the sunrise breakfast programme on Channel seven in Australia.
Miss irving was completing her report on Britain’s the Royal family when two masked men approached her and her cameraman, Jimmy Cannon, as they filmed in islington, north London.
Yesterday she told of the moment the pair approached and said she noticed they were masked. Miss irving said: ‘i kept working and ignored them ... while that was happening one of them walked up to Jimmy my cameraman and started talking to him.
‘All of a sudden Jimmy took the camera off the tripod, which is when i stepped in ... Jimmy said, “No, stay back Laurel,” and was giving the camera to a guy in a balaclava.
‘i tried to grab the camera and Jimmy said, “No, no... he’s got a gun.”
‘he knew what was about to happen, you couldn’t stop it at that point.’