A high speed pursuit in Tooting involving a police helicopter has ended with an arrest.

Police were called at 2.08pm to Garratt Lane at the junction with Tooting High Street to reports of a man acting suspiciously.

The man fled on a motorbike but was arrested a short while later on suspicion of going equipped to steal, according to police.

Tim Gilmore, who lives nearby, said it looked as though a motorbike had been abandoned in Garratt Lane.

He said: "I didn't see a crash, it looked like it was dropped.

"The helicopter was overhead for about an hour, and flew over Trinity Road way too."

The arrested man was taken to be questioned a west London police station.

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