06 January 2024 , 19:14
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Two men have been jailed for 27 years after they targeted wealthy victims for their supercars.
Nottingham Crown Court heard how Mohammed Ali told a Lamborghini owner in Cheltenham he was “worth £20m” but then pulled out a pistol on him, put him in handcuffs and ordered him to transfer £100,000 from his bank account. When the victim wasn't able to do so due to lack of funds, Ali took £7000 and drove him 76 miles to Srafford, abandoning him there.
In a victim impact statement, the victim told how he has now resigned from his job and his relationship with his partner has broken down since the robbery last year. Just two months after that offence, Ali and teenage co-defendant Muhamed Juwara carried out the exact same crime against a couple in Nottinghamshire who were selling their £170,000 Ferrari in the same way.
Jonathan Dee, prosecuting, said the Nottinghamshire robbery took place in Kirkby-in-Ashfield in September 2022. He said Ali agreed to meet the seller at his home to discuss buying the Ferrari and he and Juwara, who met working at an Amazon warehouse, travelled from their homes in West Yorkshire with a plan to steal it from them.
The prosecutor said: “When they were sitting together on a sofa, Ali pulled out the gun and pointed it directly at him and told Juwara ‘put the cuffs on him’. Mr Juwara leapt on him and there was a scuffle. The victim’s partner was dragged off by Ali who was still holding the gun.
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“She had the chance to feel it and said ‘it’s plastic’ and she fought back reaching for a vase. Their nine-year-old son, who had been upstairs, ran off and Juwara shouted ‘the boy has gone’.”
Mr Dee said the defendant fled the property, police were called and the young boy was found safely at a friend’s house. He said Ali was identified by DNA and was arrested. The prosecutor said evidence then proved he had carried out the Gloucestershire robbery and kidnap two months earlier when that victim advertised his Lamborghini supercar on the same website.
He was sentenced to 27 years in jail (BPM MEDIA)
Juwara met Ali while working at an Amazon warehouse (BPM MEDIA)According to Gloucestershire Live, the 39-year-old, of Willow Brook Manor, Wakefield, pleaded guilty to robbery, attempted robbery and possession of an imitation firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence. The co-defendant, 18-year-old Juwara of Bayswater Road, Leeds, pleaded guilty to robbery.
Mr Dee read out victim impact statements made by all three of the people who were robbed. The Nottinghamshire man said: “It has changed me as a person, I have stopped trusting people who come to my house and I can not see a future where this incident is not in my mind.”
The Gloucestershire man told how the incident “has had a profound effect” on his life. He said: “I was unable to feel safe in our own house and had to live in a hotel at first. I am now withdrawn and struggling with trust issues. I resigned from my job and my relationship broke down.”
According to Paul Addison, for Ali, his client is married with a young child and he carried out the robberies after falling into debt having borrowed money from “unregulated” sources. He said: “It was a bad decision he made at a time when he knows he lost his moral compass.”
Jailing Ali for 18 years and sending Juwara to a young offender’s institution for nine years, Judge William Harbage KC said: “Whether it was the one offence or both offences you put the householders concerned through a terrifying and prolonged ordeal. In the Nottingham case you did not just put the one victim through an ordeal but his partner and child as well.
“In both cases it must have been the householder’s worst nightmare to be attacked in their own home at gunpoint. The terror they felt can only be imagined.”
In a statement released at the time the pair were charged, Detective Inspector Paul Lefford, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “I’d like to commend the investigation team whose outstanding work and resilience achieved this result for the victims. It involved persistence and team work to give the best quality of service to the victim and to protect the public.
“I hope the excellent work in this case shows how seriously the force takes reports of robbery and how committed it is to reducing violence in our communities and protecting the public. Nottinghamshire Police will always investigate reports and work relentlessly to put suspects before the courts and seek justice for victims.”
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