A Kenyan national who stole jewelry worth Sh55 million (\u00a3441,640) in the United Kingdom was last week jailed for 15 years after he pleaded guilty to the offence.<\/p>\n
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A Kenyan national who stole jewelry worth Sh55 million (\u00a3441,640) in the United Kingdom was last week jailed for 15 years after he pleaded guilty to the offence.<\/p>\n
According to reports in the British media, the convict, Victor Okumu, 38, was jailed at York Crown Court to 10 years and six months and a further five years on license following his release.<\/p>\n
The judge who sentenced him, described the convict as a “very dangerous man who took whatever he wanted.”<\/p>\n
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During his sentencing, the judge said the incident was a “planned, sophisticated, commercial robbery” which Okumu had planned for months.<\/p>\n
Okumu committed the crime on March 11, 2019, when he is reported to have entered the jewelry shop wearing a blue boiler suit and crash helmet with the visor down.<\/p>\n
Police said he wedged the door open and pushed a box into an attendant before jumping over the counter. Okumu then took jewelry from the window display and left.<\/p>\n
Okumu spent the following days traversing the country trying to evade police and upon reviewing CCTV footage, police discovered the suspect also surveyed the jewelry shop for days.<\/p>\n
ROBBERY<\/p>\n
He had reportedly been planning the robbery for eight months.<\/p>\n
After his arrest at a hotel, almost a week later, he was found with rings from the jewelry shop which was half of what he had stolen.<\/p>\n
Back in 2009, Appeal Court judges recommended that Okumu be deported to Kenya at the end of a 13-year sentence for robbing a woman in her own home.<\/p>\n
Okumu, however, remained in the UK after his release on March 20th, 2014.<\/p>\n
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