Jeremy Corbyn's son mugged by moped thief while walking home in Holloway

Jeremy Corbyn's son Tommy with the Labour leader's wife Laura Alvarez
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Jeremy Corbyn’s son has told how he was mugged in his father’s own constituency as he walked home.

University graduate Tommy Corbyn, 23, said he was set upon by a thief on a moped who tried to “run me over” as he snatched his mobile phone.

Mr Corbyn, the youngest of the Labour leader’s three sons, told friends to be “vigilant” following the attack yesterday evening.

The moped thief targeted him as he walked through Holloway, which is in his father’s Islington North constituency, he said.

Writing online, he said: “Wasn’t expecting to get mugged on my own street walking home this evening. Friends if you’re going to walk and text PLEASE be vigilant!

“Anyone in the Holloway area keep your eyes peeled for someone with a black and white moped selling a Galaxy S5 with a cracked screen, I look forward to meeting him!”

Mr Corbyn, whose mother Claudia Bracchita is separated from the Labour leader, said he had been left unscathed but was “feeling angry”.

He told a friend: “It’ll take more than a prick and his bike to get to me!”

He wrote: “Shit happens...The real sad part is that someone was willing to try and run me over with a moped for a phone he’ll struggle to get 50 quid for!

“Just want others to learn, we all walk around like Zombies and wonder why people take advantage.

“I’m sure the guy who did it was more desperate than bad and I’m glad it happened to me not someone who would have been badly affected by it.”

Crimes committed by people on mopeds in London have soared recently, with an average of 22 robberies a day.

They range from smash and grab raids on high end boutiques and jewellers to mobile phone snatches where riders mount the pavement “at 60 miles per hour” and grab phones from the hands of unsuspecting pedestrians.

The Met has said the rise, which was mainly due to teenagers stealing mopeds and using them to commit crimes, was a “huge concern”.

Mr Corbyn added: “It’s quite pathetic really, that much effort for b*gger all.

“Just don’t want others to make the same mistake!”

It is the second time Mr Corbyn has been attacked.

Last year he complained to police after being headbutted outside a nightclub in his university town of York where he was studying electrical engineering.

He had helped organise a party for a pro Palestine hip-hop event before he was attacked outside the Mansion Nightclub in March.

Mr Corbyn, a left-wing activist, attended Acland Burghley School in Tufnell Park before going to university.

He has previously organised charity gigs for The World Transformed, a grassroots group powered by Momentum, the political organisation which supports his father.

His brother, Seb, 25, is chief of staff to shadow chancellor John McDonnell, while another, Ben Corbyn, is a successful football coach.

Jeremy Corbyn’s office declined to comment about the mugging.

Scotland Yard did not respond to requests for a comment.

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