Prolific thief who tried mugging Bridgerton star jailed for 22 months
The prolific thief who was filmed trying to snatch Bridgerton actress Genevieve Chenneour's phone has been jailed for 22 months.
Zacariah Boulares, 18, snuck up behind the 27-year-old actor and grabbed her iPhone in the Joe & the Juice on Kensington High Street, west London, in February.
The 27-year-old bravely defended herself, spinning around to grab the thief's arm while her boyfriend at the time came to her aid.
Boulares put his middle finger up to members of the public gallery and was scolded by the judge before guards took him out of Isleworth Crown Court yesterday (June 1), the MailOnline reported.
Boulares was prosecuted for both the attempted robbery of Chenneour, who plays Clara Livingston in the hit Netflix period drama, as well as for stealing a handbag at a Pizza Pilgrims in London's West End on January 30.
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Police officers caught Boulares on his 18th birthday for stealing a backpack from a blind couple who were eating at a Five Guys in Kensington with their son on February 18.
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Boulares sat stern-faced with a long ponytail in the dock, with his arms crossed as he wore a grey prison tracksuit on.
He was sentenced concurrently to five months for the Pizza Pilgrims theft, seven months for the Joe and the Juice theft, four months for the common assault of Chenneour's boyfriend at the time, Carlo Kureishi, and six months for the Five Guys theft.
Boulares put his middle finger up after the judge ordered him to be taken to the cells, prompting the judge to say that 'confirms his lack of remorse'.
The thief's extensive criminal history – 12 previous convictions relating to 28 offences – was laid bare. Judge Martin Edmunds KC described Boulares during sentencing as engaging in a 'systematic pattern of stealing from people'.
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