Police in east London have charged a teenage boy following a confrontation between past RIBA president Ben Derbyshire and a gang of moped-riding bike thieves.

Derbyshire, who is chair of architecture practice HTA Design, shared dramatic images of the incident in which he fought off assailants using an angle-grinder in an attempt to steal his Brompton bike from outside a London Fields café on Friday morning.

The footage was filmed by onlookers and identified registration numbers of motorbikes being used by the gang, who struck while Derbyshire was in the El Ganso café with his son and daughter shortly before 11am.

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