Holiday booking delays sentence for Afghans who sold £181M of stolen phones

Three members of a crime gang facing years behind bars for shipping £181m worth of stolen phones out of the country will only discover their fate when the judge returns from leave. Afghans Amir Khadikhel, 35, and Ismat Miakhel, 33, along with Indian Mansoor Mohammed, 30, admitted receiving tens of thousands of handsets. They were sent to the Middle East and the Far East where some would fetch as much as £3,700 each. Asylum seeker Khadikhel masterminded the smuggling operation,…