A fashion blogger was mugged live on camera while documenting her morning commute to work in London.
Rebecca Casserly was broadcasting part of her live daily “coffeescope” outside Highbury and Islington Tube station when a thief snatched the phone out of her hand.
The 28-year-old can be heard screaming, while more than 3,000 viewers, including her mother, watched live on Periscope.
She told the Standard: "I do a morning blog where I go to get coffee on the way to work and talk about what I'm doing for the day.
"A few minutes into it this thug on a bike just snatches my phone and cycled off. But my phone was still recording so all the viewers could hear me scream.
"It's scary because you don't expect it early in the morning when there are lots of people around."
Ms Casserly wrote that she had reported the incident to the police and had used Find My iPhone to erase the device.
But she added that she was disappointed that nobody stopped to help her, after she apparently yelled “that man took my phone”.
The incident has also affected the way Ms Casserly will blog, as she no longer feels safe to live blog from the street.
She said: “I don't feel safe having my phone out in public anymore, they must have just seen me as a victim.
“Apparently mine was the third phone that guy had taken that morning.”
But the blogger, from Galway, Ireland added that she would still be blogging every day
She added: “I'm just looking for a different format.
"It's important for me to talk to my community."
