22-04-2025
'Rolex rippers' who carried out savage attacks outside Rolls Royce showroom in London's West End are jailed
Two 'Rolex rippers' who carried out a series of savage attacks in London 's West End have been jailed for a total of 19 years.
Tedros Haile, 35, and Mahad Jammeh, 24, targeted Michail Rivas outside the Rolls Royce showroom in Stratton Street, Mayfair, on 25 June last year.
Haile, Jammeh and a third man jumped out of a white BMW wearing face coverings and surrounded Mr Rivas.
They grabbed his Mido Baroncelli Moonphase Chronograph worth £1,000 and quickly made off in the getaway car.
Mr Rivas said he feels the watch cannot be replaced as it had sentimental value and he felt apprehensive leaving his flat the next morning.
Later that night they targeted Mark Jackson and Oliver Wragg in Brewer Street.
Both were wearing short sleeved tops and expensive looking watches after a night out watching football.
Mr Jackson felt a hard object hit him behind his head before being hit by multiple full force fist punches.
He heard one of the thugs saying 'get his watch' and one say 'stab him in the face'.
One of the robbers put Mr Wragg in a chokehold from behind and he gave up his £600 Audemars Piguet replica watch.
The thieves made a getaway in the BMW they had used for both robberies.
Jammeh has eleven previous convictions for robbery dating back to when he was 15.
Haile was in breach of a suspended sentence order for a burglary where he and another man broke into a flat where a woman was present.
Jailing Haile for 11 years and Jammeh for eight years Judge Christopher Hehir said the violence had been 'gratuitous'.
He said: 'You were clearly looking to identify members of the public wearing valuable wrist watches.
'These were planned and group offences- involving multiple people attacking one or two people.'
Judge Hehir said he hoped the sentences would 'deter this type of planned and often very lucrative offending'.
Haile, of Guinness Trust Buildings, Fulham Palace Road, admitted one count of robbery and denied but was convicted of one count of robbery and one of attempted robbery.
Jammeh, of Welch House, Beaconsfield Road, Enfield, and Whittingham, of Granvill Road, Uxbridge, admitted two counts of robbery and one of attempted robbery.
Christian Whittingham, 27, will be sentenced for his involvement in three offences on a later date.
