Pair jailed for raid on telly jewellery shop

Two robbers who attacked a celebrity jeweller with hammers in a £200,000 raid have been jailed for a total of 31 years. James Dixon, 42, and Thomas Loring, 41, were caught on CCTV as they ransacked Ian Towning’s shop in Chelsea and hit him on the head with a hammer on March 26 last year. Mr Towning, 76, a star of the Channel 4 show ‘Posh Pawn’, was cornered in his Bourbon Hanby Antiques shop as the raiders grabbed valuables…

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