Amir Khan thanks the police for returning his stolen watch worth £72,000 and reveals he will now auction it for charity
- Amir Khan has thanked the police after his stolen watch was returned
- Khan will now auction the watch, which is worth £72,000, for charity
- The former boxer was robbed of his watch by a gang in east London in April 2022
Amir Khan has thanked the police for returning his stolen watch and has revealed that he will auction it off for charity.
Khan, who retired from boxing last year, was robbed of his watch, which is worth £72,000, in east London.
His rose gold Franck Muller Vanguard Chronograph was stolen by a gang after Khan had been dining with wife Faryal and friend Omar Khalid at the Sahara Grill in Leyton, east London on April 18, 2022.
Khan says that money raised from the auction will go towards his foundation.
Speaking in a video on Twitter, Khan said: ‘Hi guys, I’ve got my watch back now and I want to thank the Met Police and I just want to say that I’m going to give it to charity now.
‘Whatever I get for this watch now I’m going to auction it, I’m going to give it to the Amir Khan Foundation, all the funds are going to go to the charity and to help people around the world’.
Amir Khan thanked the police for returning his watch and will now auction it for charity
Khan wrote on Twitter: ‘A big Thank you to the @METPoliceUKRP & flying squad for getting my watch back and finding the robbers. I’d like to auction my watch and raise funds for the less fortunate and also give a donation towards gun & knife crime in UK Thanks to the British media for raising awareness’.
‘Gunman’ Dante Campbell, 21, ran at Mr Khan outside the restaurant and yelled at him to ‘take off the watch’, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
Campbell and Ahmed Bana, 25, have admitted conspiracy to rob and possession of an imitation firearm. Nurul Amin and Ismail Mohamed, both 25, both deny conspiracy to commit robbery.
Khan, 36, was robbed of his £72,000 rose gold Franck Muller Vanguard Chronograph watch (pictured) after dining at the Sahara Grill in Leyton, east London on April 18, 2022
Amir was with wife Faryal, 31, (pictured together) and friend Omar Khalid on the night of the incident as they left the restaurant
Amin and Mohamed were said to be ‘spotters’ who sat at a table a few feet away from Mr Khan in the restaurant.
In his closing speech prosecutor Philip Evans said that the incident was ‘plain as day’ and that the crime was ‘perpetrated for nothing other than greed’.
Speaking to the Jury, Mr Evans said: ‘We know there was a robbery. We know that. Campbell and Bana have pleaded guilty. You can see it, as plain as day, on the streets of London. A man pointing a gun at the head of another man.
‘This was perpetrated against a man who is famous. It was perpetrated against a man who has wealth, and had part of his wealth, and had part of that wealth on his hand.’
‘This was a crime perpetrated for nothing other than greed. To take from someone, something that was earned.’
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