The moment smash-and-grab axe-man was disarmed and pinned to the floor by brave ‘member of the Royal Household’ during botched jewellery robbery just yards from Buckingham Palace

This is the moment a member of the staff at Buckingham Palace stopped an axe-wielding robber in his tracks after a gang of would-be thieves tried to smash their way into a jewellery shop.
Four men pulled up outside H Stain jewellers in Victoria on a scooter and motorcycle, and the pillion passengers - armed with axes and sledgehammers - smashed the glass windows to steal goods from the window display.
A passer-by, believed to be a member of the Royal Household working at Buckingham Palace, just a few hundred yards up the road, grabbed one of the gang by his hoodie, bundled him to the ground and kept him restrained until police arrived, while the rest of the bungling raiders rode off.

The passer-by, who did not want to be named, told the Daily Telegraph: ‘It was like watching a scene from a Guy Ritchie movie.’
He added: ‘When they tried to zoom off I grabbed one who was driving by the hoodie. Not putting his hoodie up was a fatal mistake as it gave me something to get hold of.
‘He swore at me and I managed to yank him off his machine. I thought: "This is my bloody city - why should thugs like this get away with it?" I hope the police manage to get the rest of them.’

 

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A witness who spoke to an officer at the scene said one of the men who detained the rider had identified himself to police as a member of the Royal Household.  Buckingham Palace said they would not comment on the incident.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said that it was believed the robbers had fled empty-handed.
He said the man who was caught was 18 and was subsequently arrested on suspicion of robbery and taken into custody at a central London police station.