A Kenyan national who was ordered deported from the United Kingdom over a decade ago for armed robbery has been handed a long jail sentence over the same crime.
Victor Okumu, who was branded by the court as a "very dangerous man" stole jewellery worth £441,640 (Sh55,357,365) from Northallerton jewellers in North Yorkshire.
He is said to have stormed into the store wearing a crash helmet, boiler suit and dived over the counter.
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Okumu, 38, carried out the armed robbery on March 11 at Bradleys The Jewellers.
According to the YorkExpress, the appeal court judges had recommended that Okumu be deported a decade ago at the end of a 13-year sentence for robbing a woman in her own home.
But after his release from jail on March 20, 2014, Okumu chose to remain in the country.
Now the Kenyan will serve a 15-and-a-half year sentence for the jewelry heist.
In his recent heist, Okumu used an object to force the store's door open, then pushed a cardboard-type box into a staff member before jumping over the counter.
Police have not yet found half of the jewellery Okumu is said to have stollen from the store.
But in handing out the sentence, the judge ruled that Okumu's heist was a "planned, sophisticated, commercial robbery" he had planned for months.
