{"id":27704,"date":"2018-11-22T15:18:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T15:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=27704"},"modified":"2018-11-22T15:24:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T15:24:21","slug":"amateur-robbers-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/22\/amateur-robbers-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Robbers Jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two amateurish robbers have now been jailed after stealing an empty cash box from a security guard and parked their getaway car below a CCTV camera and one also left DNA over drinks can found in the stolen vehicle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Birmingham Crown Court\u00a0heard how the planning for the raid on a guard collecting cheques from a\u00a0Birmingham city centre\u00a0council office was “non-existent”.<\/p>\n

Emad Suwaid\u00a0and\u00a0Shadab Zahir waited for the guard in Woodcock Street on April 11. The victim threw the cash box away as Zahir and a third accomplice charged at him. But the guard fought back as they ran back towards the Cougar, which was on false plates.<\/p>\n

The box was empty and Zahir’s mobile phone was dropped at the scene. Police had been able to follow the gang’s movements as the car was\u00a0parked directly beneath a CCTV camera.<\/p>\n

Michael Williams, prosecuting, said Zahir had changed his clothes in a bid to change his appearance while CCTV showed him appearing to be looking for something, which was likely to be the mobile phone he had left behind.<\/p>\n

Suwaid, 23, of Little Hill Grove, Kings Norton, and Zahir, 28, of no fixed address, had both previously admitted a charge of robbery.<\/p>\n

Suwaid was jailed for eight years and one month and Zahir was sentenced to six years and five months.<\/p>\n

Terry Pedro, for Suwaid, said the robbery was \u201cnot very well organised at all\u201d and the degree of sophistication was \u201cdebatable.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that, even if the cash box had something in it, it would have contained cheques from the council.<\/p>\n

Lee Masters, for Zahir, said: \u201cThis is an unusual cash in transit robbery in that there were no weapons.<\/p>\n

Passing sentence, Judge Richard Bond said the gang, who had gone to a burger bar after the robbery, had hoped to get a substantial amount of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two amateurish robbers have now been jailed after stealing an empty cash box from a security guard and parked their getaway car below a CCTV camera and one also left DNA over drinks can found in the stolen vehicle. Birmingham Crown Court\u00a0heard how the planning for the raid on a guard collecting cheques from a\u00a0Birmingham […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[264,1389,1708],"class_list":{"0":"post-27704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-latest","8":"category-local-news","9":"category-news","10":"category-top-stories","11":"tag-birmingham","13":"tag-kings-norton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}