Maserati break-in in Khan's London prompts Mike Graham to slam crime as Trump criticizes mayor

A top talk-show host has become the latest victim of what he described as crime in Sadiq Khan's London after his Maserati was broken into in a central London car park yesterday. Mike Graham, 65, said he discovered the rear windscreen smashed when he returned to the car in an NCP car park with 24/7 security patrols.

He described the incident on his Morning Glory programme on Talk and posted a photo of the broken glass on X, saying thieves got away with an old ski jacket but left behind 11 bottles of wine. The wine was in a box, and the jacket dated from about 1988. The rear windscreen had a crack, and the car was on the seventh floor. Graham said the thieves seemed to target the jacket; there was also a raincoat in the back seat, which they did not take. He added that he had to arrange repairs and that he’d used the same car park for six years, but staff had warned him of a known man who roams the NCP car parks looking to smash windows and grab items. He claimed the police were not interested.

Graham’s remarks dovetail with a broader political clash surrounding London’s crime posture. He said London is now a bereft city and accused Sir Sadiq Khan of portraying London as the most remarkable city in the world when, in his view, crime has risen. He added that he has lived in London for decades and objects to what he called a defensively complacent attitude toward crime from some political commentators who argue against acknowledging worsening conditions.

The incident comes amid a wider Crime and safety discourse in the capital. Earlier this summer, knife offences in London were reported to have risen 86 percent over a decade. A Policy Exchange study found that the West End has more knife crime than almost 15 percent of the rest of the capital, and just a fraction of robberies and theft-from-person cases were solved last year. Ex-Scotland Yard detective chief inspector David Spencer, the report’s author, urged a crime-fighting-first approach to address what the authors describe as a citywide epidemic.

In New York on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said Europe is in serious trouble and criticized London’s leadership, calling the city run by a 'terrible, terrible mayor' who he said has allowed substantial changes, including what he claimed is support for Sharia law. He argued that immigration and policy ideas would be the death of Western Europe if not addressed immediately. The comments underscore a long-running feud between Trump and Khan that intensified after Trump’s UN General Assembly appearance.

A spokesperson for Sir Sadiq Khan pushed back on Graham’s and Trump’s criticisms, saying the mayor’s office would not dignify what it described as 'appalling and bigoted' remarks with a response. The spokesperson noted that London remains, in their view, the greatest city in the world and safer than major U.S. cities, pointing to homicide-rate comparisons that place London far below U.S. levels. The mayor’s office also highlighted U.S. statistics showing homicide rates higher than London’s.

The dispute between Trump and Khan has included exchanges about public safety and city governance that show little sign of abating. As the capital grapples with crime concerns and political rhetoric alike, Graham’s experience serves as a news point in a broader, ongoing debate over London’s security and leadership.