BBC Breakfast star Ben Thompson was focused by a gang of six males in London for his £7,000 Rolex.
BBC Breakfast star Ben Thompson and Sally Nugent (Picture: BBC)
BBC Breakfast presenter Ben Thompson has admitted he not feels secure within the nation’s capital after having his Rolex ripped from his wrist in a vicious assault. The 45-year-old and a buddy have been focused for his or her costly watches by a gang once they have been leaving a Mayfair restaurant on March 11 final 12 months. In line with experiences, the £7,000 watch was a present from his accomplice, Andy Roche, to rejoice his fortieth birthday and had been custom-engraved. Three gang members then grabbed Thompson earlier than they fled the scene. The BBC presenter now has a scar on his wrist from the assault, and he stated in his sufferer influence assertion how he is suffered flashbacks and anxiousness because the assault.
BBC Breakfast star Ben Thompson, 45, was robbed in London (Picture: BBC)
The opposite defendant, Hocine Boulanouar, 26, denied his two prices of theft and was given 4 years and three months in jail.
The police haven’t recognized the opposite 4 males concerned within the assault.
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