Accused robber Abdel-Hamid Jawhari is an asylum seeker getting £600 a month from the council

An asylum seeker accused of robbing a man of a £16,000 watch is suffering from ‘Complex PTSD’ and receiving £600 a month from Islington Council. Abdel-Hamid Jawhari, 19, accepts he grabbed a Hublot Big Bang titanium watch from Chris Brown last 13 July but claims he was acting under duress. Mr Brown was staying at Claridge’s with his wife and he was about to enter the gun shop James Purdey and Sons on South Audley Street when he was robbed,…