Gone Girl celebrity Rosamund Pike falls sufferer to fatal telephone snatchers as she is ‘punched within the face and robbed whilst at the telephone to her mom’

Rosamund Pike has published she was once punched within the face and had her cell phone snatched violently out of her hand via a ‘mugger’ on a bicycle. 

The James Bond and Gone Girl celebrity, 46, spoke of her ’15 mins’ of hell when she was once focused via the thief as she spoke to her mom whilst strolling down the road. 

She stated she screamed in terror and her mum, Caroline Friend, was once left fearing the worst till she was once ready to name her again on every other telephone. 

Rosamund, who starred with Piers Brosnan in Die Another Day (2002), advised Magic Radio: ‘I used to be at the telephone to my mom — on a cell phone strolling alongside a highway — and I used to be mugged.

‘The telephone was once snatched so all she heard was once me scream and a thud and the telephone went lifeless.’

She stated the ‘mugger’ was once a child who sped previous her on a bicycle and punched her down the facet of her cheek. 

Rosamund, who was once born in London, stated the thief took her cell phone and left her with a bruise on her face. 

The actress is the newest superstar to fall sufferer to the terrifying pattern of telephone snatching this is sweeping London. 

Rosamund Pike is observed enjoying Amy Dunne in 2014’s Gone Girl

Former tennis celebrity Annabel Croft stated her cellular was once stolen ‘blank out of her arms’ whilst she waited for a taxi outdoor London King’s Cross station in June closing yr.

Ms Croft wrote on Instagram: ‘I simply sought after to warn people who find themselves on their very own in London. I simply were given mugged looking ahead to a taxi outdoor King’s Cross St Pancreas. 

‘The guy was once driving a motorbike and dressed in a black balaclava. He rode immediately at me and took my telephone blank out of my arms.

‘He rode away with it however happily dropped my telephone so I were given it again. Terrifying!’

Meanwhile, TV presenter Kym Marsh additionally had her telephone swiped from her hand on a London side road in March. 

Speaking to her co-host Gethin Jones on BBC’s Morning Live, she stated: ‘It is fairly a frightening factor to occur to you, you might be strolling down a highway after which swiftly one thing’s taken from your hand.

‘And that was once a couple of fortnight in the past that was once taken from me. But fortunately I used to be ok.’

London is within the grips of a terrifying spate of telephone snatchings the place e-bike crooks use high-powered automobiles to thieve the units and make fast getaways.

Figures have proven {that a} cell phone is reported as stolen in London each and every six mins.

Rosamund is observed starring with Piers Brosnan in 2002’s Die Another Day

Annabel Croft, 57, published she was once mugged in wide sunlight via a masked guy in London (pictured in January closing yr)

More than 70,000 mobiles had been stolen within the capital closing yr with criminals the usage of violence and distraction tactics to focus on sufferers.

In 2023, the worst-hit borough was once the City of Westminster, the place vacationers flock for theatre presentations and high-end buying groceries, with 18,863 reported incidents in 2023. 

Camden was once the second one worst affected, with 4,806 incidents, adopted via Southwark (4,376), Hackney (2,761), Newham (2,585), Lambeth (2,394) and Islington (2,117).

Shocking movies display muggers swerving along pedestrians prior to grabbing their telephones and making off with them at velocity. 

One thief who was once lately delivered to justice stole 24 telephones in a single morning.

But in fresh months, ‘quite a lot of operations’ deployed via the police drive involving tracking CCTV photos, expanding officials’ consciousness and ‘using’ visitors gadgets and surge groups have caused a lower in telephone robbery.

A 27 consistent with cent lower was once recorded in November closing yr whilst, in an much more promising statistic, a 43 consistent with cent lower was once accomplished the next month.

Despite such successes, then again, Kaya Comer-Schwartz, London’s Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, affirmed that there’s ‘extra to do.’

Last yr a video confirmed a bicycle owner dressed all in black journey as much as a bunch of other folks status close to the Curzon cinema on Shaftesbury Avenue in London’s West End 

Pictured: Another incident of telephone snatching in London 

‘As the prison call for for high-value cell phones continues to develop globally, the Mayor and I are transparent that businesses should pass additional and quicker to make it tougher for stolen telephones to be offered on, repurposed and re-used illegally,’ she stated.

‘We’ll proceed to paintings with main cell phone firms, the Home Secretary and Met leaders to seek out cutting edge answers to finish the scourge of cell phone crime.

‘The luck in tackling telephone thefts comes after the Met moved out of particular measures closing month, following primary enhancements in lots of spaces of carrier to London.

‘These come with responding extra briefly to emergencies and strengthening neighbourhood policing to higher reply to communities’ considerations, together with tackling robbery and robberies.

‘The Met is urging any person who has misplaced or had stolen a telephone to make use of the nationwide cell phone sign up so recovered handsets can also be restored, by means of The Police National Mobile Property Register.’

MailOnline has contacted Rosamund’s representatives for remark.