Pop­u­lar so­cial me­dia in­flu­encer Nigel Wat­son, bet­ter known by his In­sta­gram han­dle NCW, was robbed of his ve­hi­cle in Diego Mar­tin on Wednes­day night.

Po­lice said Wat­son, 41, was sit­ting in the pas­sen­ger side seat of his blue MG which was parked in the car park of KFC on the cor­ner of St Lu­cien and Sier­ra Leon Road, at around 8.07 pm when he was con­front­ed by a gun­man wear­ing a sur­gi­cal mask who de­mand­ed mon­ey.

Wat­son told the ban­dit he had no mon­ey and he was or­dered out of the car. The ban­dit drove off with the ve­hi­cle.

West­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice were called in and found the car aban­doned in Crys­tal Stream short­ly af­ter.

Wat­son con­firmed the in­ci­dent on his In­sta­gram ac­count on Wednes­day night not­ing that he had nev­er been robbed be­fore and lament­ed that any­one could be a vic­tim of crime.