Amir Khan has quit UK for Dubai after being robbed at gunpoint

Former world champion boxer Amir Khan has said he feels safer living in Dubai than the UK after being robbed at gunpoint for his £70,000 diamond encrusted watch a year ago. The 36-year-old Bolton boxer was robbed of the watch as he left a restaurant in east London on April 18 last year with his wife, Faryal Makhdoom, 31.

Amir, who has three young children, has now said he prefers to live Dubai with his family after being left scared for his life here. Speaking on Good Morning Britain yesterday (Tuesday March 4), before the news broke that he had been handed a two-year ban from sport after testing positive for a banned substance, Amir described the terrifying moment he had a gun pointed in his face.

"Life just goes right past you." he told Good Morning Britain presenters Kate Garraway and Richard Madeley. "I remember someone pushing me to the car and put a gun straight to my face. He didn't say anything and I was in shock.

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"It's only when he said 'take off your watch' I realised he's come for the watch. I remember him having the gun on the side of my head."

The I'm A Celebrity ...Get Me Out Of Here! star described: "You think about your family, your children. I've never seen a gun for real. I remember looking straight in the barrel when he put it right in front of me. Down the barrel. I thought if he is going to shoot, I have to look away."

Amir says he's now "picky" about where he goes and takes security with him to busy places. He said: "I'm very picky now where I go. I pick and choose what time I go to places and make sure that sometimes I take security with me