Security guards jailed for £200k theft

FOUR crooked security guards, who stole iPhones worth £200,000 were nailed, when they bragged about their crimes on social media.

Mohammed Miah, 43, Jaleel Khan, 30, Soyfur Rahman, 38 and Mohammed Aamar, 28, took them from the UPS distribution centre where they worked.

Covert security cameras, installed after losses there, captured Miah and Khan shifting iPhones in August 2015 from the warehouse at Birch Coppice Business Park in Dordon, Warks.

Five boxes, each holding 70 iPhones, which were destined for Vodafone and Carphone Warehouse, were taken in a weekend.

When Miah was arrested he had 29 iPhones on him but had boasted on social media about having 150.

Selling

A total of 535 handsets worth £3,753 were found at Khan’s home, and goods worth £7,476 at Rahman’s. All three men had been selling phones and other items online.

Aamar received stolen goods worth £1,300 from them which he sold on.

Miah, Rahman and Khan admitted theft at Warwick Crown Court. Aamar pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods.

Miah, of Birmingham, and Khan, of Walsall, were both jailed for 4 and half years.

Rahman, of Birmingham, was jailed for 21 months.

Aamar, also from the city, was handed a 13-month sentence.

Judge Anthony Potter told Aamar: “The sheer scale of the thefts is encapsulated by the fact that it took the police over 600 hours to catalogue over 2,400 items... and that is only a fraction of what you, Miah, Rahman and Khan had stolen.”

Delroy Henry, defending Miah, said: “His greed undoubtedly got the better of him.”