Two men cleared of conspiracy to rob boxer Amir Khan after gunpoint watch theft

Two men accused as acting as 'spotters' during the gunpoint robbery of former world champion boxer Amir Khan have been cleared of conspiracy to rob. The 36-yeard-old, from Bolton, was robbed of his £70,000 diamond-encrusted watch when leaving an east London restaurant with his wife on April 18 last year.

Ismail Mohamed, 24, of Edmonton, and Nurul Amin, 25, of Harringay, both in north London, denied conspiracy to rob and were acquitted by a jury at east London’s Snaresbrook Crown Court on today (Friday). The jury deliberated for just two hours before returning their unanimous verdicts.

Mohamed and Amin were accused of plotting an ambush with others in which Khan was forced to hand over his bespoke rose gold diamond-encrusted Franck Muller watch by gunman Dante Campbell, 20. Mohamed and Amin were at the restaurant with another man called Hamza Kulane, who was not on trial.

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The prosecution argued they had acted as 'spotters' and stayed in the restaurant to keep track of Mr Khan’s movements and relay them by phone to Ahmed Bana, 25. Campbell and Bana who drove the robbers to and from the scene have previously admitted their roles in the ambush.

Mohamed said Bana arranged with him to come to meet the group to buy cannabis but denied he alerted anyone from the restaurant that Mr Khan was there, and told the jury he had simply been scrolling through social media. He told jurors he had not heard of Mr Khan before accompanying his friends to the restaurant to break their Ramadan fast.

He said that it was friend Mr Kulane who pointed out that Mr Khan was at the restaurant when he was