Five years for refugee after watch robbery spree

A Tunisian asylum seeker who went on a spree of designer watch robberies while on police bail has been jailed for just over five years. Amine Hamlaoui, 19, grabbed Tag Heuer and Hublot timepieces worth nearly £90,000 between August and September 2017. Hamlaoui carried out a series of vicious street muggings in central London with a French accomplice, who cannot be named for legal reasons. Neil Sandys, prosecuting, said the pair struck last August when they mugged a Swiss 17-year-old…

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