Shocking CCTV footage shows moped gang try to smash into jewellers with sledgehammers

This shocking footage shows a salon worker fighting off a gang of moped riders with a shop sign - as they tried to smash into a jewellery shop with sledgehammers.

Calvin Brown, 19, was jailed for eight years after he and three others pulled up at Colebys jewellery shop and began ramming into the store with mopeds.

They used sledgehammers to try and break the glass front until the owner of a neighbouring hairdressers attempted to distract them by throwing their shop sign at them.

However, this did little to stop the frightening attack on the store on Billericay High Street, Essex, and one of the mopeds drove through the shop front.

A van driver trapped two of the mopeds by manoeuvring his van to prevent them from hurting anyone, despite them smashing his windscreen.

All four suspects then got on the remaining moped and fled from the scene.