Algerian robber will be deported after serving nine years

An Algerian migrant who escaped on a Lime bike after snatching a ‘unique’ £47,000 Cartier from a businessman getting into a black taxi will be deported after he serves nine years in jail. Fares Lakel, 28, and an accomplice, ripped the timepiece from the wrist of Francis Asher after he had been on a night out with his friends in Mayfair on 16 October last year. Mr Asher’s friends tried to pull Lakel away but they stopped after the other…

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