British tourist in Spain mugged twice in ONE night by two separate groups of migrants
A British tourist was mugged twice for his £150,000 designer watch and his mobile phone by two groups of migrants in Majorca (stock image)
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A British tourist was mugged twice for his £150,000 designer watch and his mobile phone by two groups of migrants in Majorca.
The 55-year-old victim was targeted as he left a bar on Palma’s seafront promenade.
Senegalese migrant Mbengue Alla, 31, followed the holidaymaker out of La Bodeguita del Medio before stealing his mobile phone while he was taking money out from a nearby cash machine.
Algerians Amine Benserai, 34, and Hicham Ziroki, 33, then mugged the man just moments later.
A British tourist was mugged twice for his £150,000 designer watch and his mobile phone by two groups of migrants in Majorca (stock image)GettyThe group threw him to the ground and took his diamond Rolex watch before fleeing the scene.
It later emerged that the three men responsible were were separate incidents and were not known to each other.
Alla received a three-month suspended prison sentence for the watch theft following a trial at a court in Palma.
The two Algerians were jailed for two years each for the violent Rolex robbery.
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Another Senegalese man they sold the designer watch to for just £5,000, named as Mbaye Modou Anna, received a six-month suspended prison sentence for receiving stolen goods.
The British victim was targeted on March 10.
A month later, the two Rolex robbers were arrested and were held in prison.
They are expected to be made to complete their full sentence unless they compensate the victim for the estimated cost of his valuable timepiece.
It later emerged that the three men responsible were were separate incidents and were not known to each other.
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It comes after two other British tourists were caught up in a horror mugging in Lloret de Mar, Costa Brava resort.
A masked mugger demanded their cash and other valuables.
One of the tourists, reportedly a woman, was stabbed during a struggle with the aggressor after they reportedly refused to comply with his demand.
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