Editor of Vogue's son is carjacking victim

The family of Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman have become the latest high-profile victims of London's carjacking epidemic.

The journalist's six-year-old son, Sam, has been left traumatised after seeing his nanny, Amanda Rogers, ambushed outside the family home in Queen's Park. Miss Rogers, 24, today told how she was grabbed from behind after parking her VW Golf and dropping her young charge home. The robber threatened her before taking her keys and driving off.

Miss Rogers said: "This big black hand came across my face. Then he yanked my head back and I couldn't see Sam. I was struggling, but judging from the bruises on my knees and elbows he must have forced me to the pavement. I thought he was going to rape me in front of the child in the middle of the road," she told The Daily Telegraph.

"Then he said, 'Give me the keys, give me the keys'. I dropped everything but he only grabbed the keys. And then he was gone, in the car."

The nanny, a slightly built Australian, said she had been aware of the man before he struck, but decided not to confront him in front of Sam. The boy, who had reached the porch by the time the attacker pounced, looked on in horror.

His mother said he had become "extremely nervous" since the incident. The attack, which took place two weeks ago, will increase pressure on the Met to tackle a surge in street crime. Mrs Shulman said she now felt safer in New York than London and had considered moving to a more salubrious area of London.