This is the shocking moment a moped robber walked into a busy cafe and pulled a laptop from a woman's hands.

Moped gangs have plagued London's streets in recent months, with pedestrians repeatedly targeted for their mobile phones as they walk along the capital's pavements.

But the raid in the Bread and Bean Cafe, Archway yesterday shows the brazen robbers are now moving on to stealing from people inside shops and businesses.

A brazen moped thief pulled a laptop from the hands of cafe customer in London today

The theft was over in a matter of seconds, with the raider quickly running back out the door

Footage shows the victim working on her laptop on a table next to the window of the cafe as the helmet-wearing robber walks in.

He quickly grabs the computer before running back out of the door and jumping on a waiting moped, which then speeds off. The raid took less than 10 seconds.

Café owner Valbona Sadiku said it was the second time moped robbers have targeted the premises in just three weeks.

She told MailOnline: 'It's unbelievable that these moped gangs will now actually enter peoples' property, it's gone to another level, it's horrific.

'The police said they are putting up signs but that is nonsense. They told me there was only three of them.'

The cafe is calling on London major Sadiq Khan to act to stop the worrying rise of such crimes.

As stunned staff and customers looked on, the thief made off on a moped with an accomplice

The disturbing incident happened at the Bread and Bean cafe in north London yesterday

A witness to the raid wrote online: 'Five mins ago, lad in helmet comes in, grabs laptop, mate turns up on a moped, lad shoves people out of the way, jumps on and off they go.

'So fast, too fast for anyone to react and stop them. No number plate.'

She said the moped robberies were now 'so blatant and frequent' that police should set up traps to try and catch them.

The incident came just a day after charity worker Abdul Samad was stabbed and killed as he tried to fend of moped muggers who stole his iPhone

The cafe's owners claim a phone is stolen in the area every hour by moped thieves, with some gangs carrying out repeated offences.

MailOnline understands a woman had a phone stolen by two people on a moped just yards from the cafe the night before the incident.

Islington Police tweeted: 'We are aware of this. It has been reported and is being investigated.

'We will be in Archway putting new sinage [sic] up tomorrow warning of crime.'

Mopeds are fast becoming the transport of choice for many of London's criminals, with muggers stabbing and killing 28-year-old Abdul Samad on Monday this week.

Mr Samad was attacked outside his home in Little Venice, three miles from the cafe incident, when muggers tried to snatch his iPhone 7.

The promising economics graduate is thought to have tried to keep hold of his phone before he was brutally attacked and left bleeding to death on his doorstep.

Moped smash and grab robbers meanwhile carried out their 16th raid in just five months when they stole from a designer boutique in Knightsbridge last month.

More than 8,000 offences were carried out by criminals on mopeds in London last year. The figure is 16 times what is was five years before ago.

Moped thefts - carried out on London's pavements - have become a common occurance

Thugs favour the bikes because they are easy to get away on and, if they remove their helmets, police can be reluctant to chase them in case the criminals are hurt.

Last week, a teenage trio who stole 103 phones in an 18-day reign of terror and targeted ex-Chancellor George Osborne were finally jailed.

The prosecutor in that case, Paul Fairley, said: 'Recently, the UK - and London in particular - has seen a huge increase in what is termed 'moped-enabled crime' - robberies and thefts for, in the main, mobile phones.

'The premise is simple. Obtain a stolen moped, or steal it for yourself, dress up in motorcycle clothing which has the effect of providing a very effective disguise, arm yourself if necessary and then drive about looking for mobile phones to steal.

'They are easy to find, they are expensive and the sell-on price for the thief is significant.

'These offences are difficult to detect. The offending rate was so high precisely because of the rewards available, and because there was a ready market.'