A Thieving yob struggles to break free after his leg was grabbed by workers at a phone shop he tried to rob.

Staff held on and used their door to trap him while they rang cops.

The 18-year-old lout, wearing a Burberry-style cap, struggled so furiously he cut himself on broken glass.

A crowd gathered and shouted: "That's what you get for being a tea leaf."

The teenager and a male accomplice, who escaped, had threatened the shop manager with a soldering iron he had been using in Streatham Hill, South London.

Witness Dan Hickey, 27, said: "The thief was getting more and more agitated and shouting. It was very funny - and serves him right."

Onlookers applauded when he was nicked.

A passer-by took these photos before police arrested the lad and launched an attempted robbery investigation.