Another let-off for career crook

A pickpocket who spat in a commuter’s face after she stopped him stealing her purse has been spared jail. Zacharia Jawara, 37, sneaked up behind Nikki Burgess on the escalator at Green Park Tube station on 30 July last year and put his hand in her handbag. Feeling a tug, she turned around and confronted the thief, but he called her a ‘stupid whore’ and a ‘lying bitch’ as she accused him of theft. Her purse dropped from his hand…