I used walking stick to see off pair of Rolex thieves – and I’d do it again!
Cowardly: The thieves scarper as Daisy Alexander, circled, arrives
AN elderly woman who chased off a pair of knife-wielding Rolex muggers with a walking stick said she ‘would do it again’ after footage of her heroics went viral.
Daisy Alexander, 77, rushed to the aid of a younger woman after hearing her screams as she cowered in a doorway during the incident in upmarket Chelsea, west London, on Monday afternoon.
The ‘cowardly’ armed duo made off with the £60,000 timepiece without doing any more harm after the brave efforts of Mrs Alexander and her husband Richard, also 77.
Mrs Alexander, who was captured on camera grasping the stick with both hands and jabbing it towards the thieves while still wearing her apron, told the MailOnline: ‘I didn’t hit them with it, but it certainly had the right effect as they ran off into the car and drove away.
‘I don’t think they were expecting to be confronted by an elderly woman with a walking stick.
‘They were just extraordinary cowards, and I would do it again if I had to. I wanted to scare them off and it worked as they jumped into their car and sped off.
‘All I remember is one of them looked extremely big but I didn’t see a knife. It was only afterwards that Richard told me one of them had a knife and was pointing it at the throat of the lady.’
Mrs Alexander, who lives next door to where the woman was mugged, said she was compelled to spring into action because ‘someone had to do something instead of just standing by and filming it on their phone’.
She retrieved her grandfather’s walking stick – which Mrs Alexander reckoned to be older than her – and set about warding the hooded assailants off.
‘My grandfather was very fond of his walking stick, and I’ve had it for years,’ she said.
‘I don’t use it that often but I’m sure he would be very proud to know it was put to good use.’
Mr Alexander described his wife of 50 years as a ‘formidable woman’ who ‘just did what she thought was right’. The American couple have lived in London since the early 1970s after meeting at college in the US.
The men escaped in a grey Mitsubishi car. The Metropolitan Police said no arrests had been made but that enquiries were continuing.
The incident came just hours after a brazen thief disguised as a Deliveroo driver smashed a £3million Bugatti Chiron with a hammer in a bid to steal a man’s Rolex as he drove near Hyde Park Corner in Mayfair on Sunday.
‘Someone had to do something’