Algerian asylum seeker claimed he had to rob shops to survive

An Algerian asylum seeker who spat on a security guard after robbing John Lewis of a dozen designer handbags was jailed for two and a half years. Kheinddine Fatmi, 35, gave the guard a shove and gobbed on his bare arm at the West End store on 30 October last year. The construction worker is seeking asylum in the UK but may now face deportation, Southwark Crown Court heard. Fatmi and four other masked men entered the Mulberry section of…