This is the moment a gang of teenagers and young men ripped phones from their security ties and raced out of a shop, then barge a member of staff who tried to stop them.
Four members of the gang have now been convicted for as many as 44 similar thefts from shops across the country, including two in Bristol and in Weston-super-Mare.
Police estimate they stole hundreds of mobile phones in the raids, which took just seconds to carry out - and amassed a total of £87,000 worth of phones from the displays in the shops.
The gang's strategy was the same in Broadmead and Weston-super-Mare as it was in Hull, London and Swindon - they would enter the shop in a large group, all line up at the phones being displayed nearest the door, and then simultaneously rip them out of their display cables and run out of the shop.
The 44 raids they carried out included one in Weston, another at Carphone Warehouse in Avonmeads and one at O2 in Broadmead.
Winchester Crown Court was shown video from many of the raids - including one in Chippenham, Wiltshire, where a large gang stormed their way out of the shop despite being physically barred by a member of staff.
At one raid in Eastleigh, near Southampton, the gang barged an elderly lady over and she ended up injured and in hospital.
Eventually, four of the men were caught following a complicated investigation by police forces across the south of England during 2018.
The gang were identified and caught red-handed in Salisbury, Wiltshire in a dramatic police operation.
It began when three people were seen running from the EE shop in Salisbury city centre, after snatching mobile phones. Their black Audi getaway car was spotted in Devizes Road heading out of the city, but four men inside got out and ran off, only to be caught following a chase on foot.
Back at the car, stolen phones from the EE store were found, along with stolen phones from thefts in Dorset and Sussex.
Further examination of their own mobile phones found evidence they had committed similar offences across the country.
The gang was traced to Slough in Berkshire, and eventually linked with 44 snatch-and-run raids across the country, including in Bristol and Weston-super-Mare.
They were all in their late teens or early twenties. Madalin Baboi, 18, from Brammas Close in Slough was jailed in a youth offenders institute for 12 months.
Drona Bujor, 18 from The Crescent, Slough, got ten months, Croidon Bujor, 19, from Pearl Gardens, Slough, got 18 months and Lionard Vasille, 21, from Brammas Close, Slough, was jailed for six months but suspended for 18 months.
All appeared at Winchester Crown Court for sentencing on Thursday last week, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to steal between January and October 2018.
“This was an extremely lengthy and complex investigation – the fact that the group were responsible for so many offences across various counties in the country made it especially complicated and required an extensive amount of partnership working with other police forces," said DC Mark Welch, from Wiltshire police.
“Through CCTV analysis and mapping of the personal phones of these four individuals, we were able to identify 44 offences which we could attribute to them.
“The group were brazen in that they committed these crimes during the middle of the day when the shops were full with customers – during one incident in Eastleigh, Hampshire, an elderly woman had to be hospitalised after she was knocked over by the gang as they made off with a display table of phones.
“During analysis of the men’s phones, we found multiple photographs of the stolen phones and the cash they pocketed as a result of their actions.
“I hope this case shows the lengths we will go to, to investigate individuals. What may initially appear as a one off shoplifting incident has in fact led to an organised crime group being put before the courts and sentenced for their actions.”
