Overview
- A man with a broken ankle was targeted outside Liverpool Street Station when an offender violently ripped a Rolex worth about £28,000 from his wrist in an opportunistic street robbery last year.
- Police traced the attack on multiple City of London CCTV cameras and then linked movements across the transport network to build the case.
- Mohammed Fremoule, 29, of Walthamstow, was arrested after being found with a stolen phone and pleaded guilty to robbery and handling stolen goods before Inner London Crown Court.
- Fremoule was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison, but the Rolex was never recovered and the victim had not insured the watch.
- City of London Police credited the Safer City Streets initiative and its extensive CCTV network, saying the coverage and cross-force work with the Metropolitan and British Transport Police helped secure the conviction and improve theft detection in the Square Mile.