Afghan gang handled stolen phones worth £181m

Half the phones stolen in London were handled by an Afghan crime gang who may have shipped as many as 40,000 out of the country, a court heard. Afghans Amir Khadikhel, 35, and Ismat Miakhel, 33, along with Indian Mansoor Mohammed, 30, are facing years in jail after they admitted receiving huge numbers of handsets. They were sent to the Middle East and China where some would fetch as much as £3,700 each. Khadikhel and Mohammed both admitted conspiring dishonestly…