Rolex ripper jailed for Mayfair robbery

A Rolex ripper who snatched a diner’s watch and stole a bus passenger’s phone while on bail has been jailed for more three years. Palestinian Ali Sharif, 33, with accomplice Mohamed Benioua, 30, targeted company boss Dimitrios Triadis for his £18,000 watch outside French restaurant Mister Nice in Mayfair on 26 October 2023. Father-of-one Sharif, who was living in the Holiday Inn Express in Oxford, was arrested and released on bail. But four days later he grabbed an iPhone from…