BURKA RAIDERS
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THREE members of a crime gang who wore burka disguises in a raid on a jewellers face lengthy jail sentences.
Dean King, Anthony Wheeldon and Connor Willis were among robbers who targeted Walker the Jeweller in Dundee in September 2019.
The High Court in Edinburgh was shown footage of King keeping the door of the shop open by bending down to tie a lace while accomplices – two wearing Islamic-style fulllength robes and face coverings – ran in.
A customer, Gordon Morris, swung a stool at the raiders but a robber wielding a mallet struck it then hit him on the head with the weapon. Advocate depute Ashley Edwards QC said: “Mr Morris fell backwards striking his head on a wall and the male stood over him brandishing the mallet.”
The robbers then smashed display cabinets but a staff member activated an anti-robbery device which filled the store with a thick fog. The gang fled with two Rolex watches worth £17,850. King, 28, Wheeldon, 40, and Willis, 24, pled guilty to the assault and robbery while acting with others.
Willis also admitted taking part in a raid on Miena Jewellery in Edinburgh in August 2019.
Shop owner Wail Al-Khamis bravely fought back despite being struck with an axe.
The raiders looted gold chains, coins and other jewellery worth about £27,000.
Willis was identified from CCTV footage from a cafe near the Edinburgh raid and a DNA profile matching him was recovered from a rucksack dropped during the robbery in Dundee. A vape bottle was found in a car used in the raid which linked a DNA profile to Wheeldon. King was later arrested in Hamilton and told police he was “a known driver”. The judge, Lord Beckett, deferred sentence on the trio.