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Aitken's girl mugs muggers

By Andy Rudd

THE daughter of disgraced Tory MP Jonathan Aitken told yesterday how she chased and fought four muggers after they attacked her in the street.

Alexandra Aitken, 22, had her bag and mobile snatched near her home.

But the brave socialite sped after the gang and caught one of them.

Passers-by joined in the pursuit and called police to the scene in Kennington, South East London.

Alex, who recovered her bag but not her phone, said: "I used to be quite a sprinter so I ran at them, screaming my head off.

"They must have thought 'Who is this chick?' They were definitely more scared of me than I was of them - and definitely more hurt than I was."

A 17-year-old was charged with robbery.

But wannabe film star Alex, whose ex-Cabinet minister father was jailed for 18 months for perjury in 1997, does not intend to repeat her heroine act.

She admitted: "It was a bit stupid of me to fight them. If they had knives, I'd have been toast."

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