Film hardman Nick mugged at knife point
Actor Nick Moran was stabbed by teenage thugs during a mugging near his posh London home. The Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels actor, who needed several stitches in his hand after the attack, was walking back from a night out in Cocoon in Piccadilly to his Fitzroy Square home when two knife-wielding men came at him.
He told us: "They knew what they were doing. One guy came at me from the front with a knife and his friend came at me and held a knife at my throat. I do karate so I stood there for a few seconds considering whether I should try and take them or not. Before I got a chance the guy in front of me shouted 'What have you got?' and I laughed at him saying, 'It's not your lucky night' because I had no money in my wallet.
"He then demanded my mobile so I took the chip out and threw the phone on the ground thinking, in true Batman style, that he would bend over and I would have him.
"But of course there was still the guy behind me. I tried to ward him off but he stabbed me with the knife and I ended up having to get stitches in my hand. In the end they just got the phone and they ran off." Nick, ever the good citizen, called the police after the incident at the weekend to make sure it doesn't happen to another resident.
"I told the police these guys have done it before and they'll do it again," he told us at last night's Capital Rocks gig in Battersea Park.
"The way they covered their face and spoke to me, they are obviously pros.
"The police were great. We walked through where it happened and there is CCTV footage so they are really confident that they will catch who did this.
"The most important thing is that knife crime has to stop in this city, it's getting out of control. I could defend myself but what if it was someone who couldn't? It has to stop."
Moran played cardsharp and hapless wideboy Eddy in Lock Stock.
Most recently he starred in BBC hit series Hotel Babylon and is currently making gangster movie Clubbing To Death alongside "classy" girls Lauren Pope and Donatella Panayiotou.
