- Gang embarked on £1m crime spree in London using hammers, knives and a gun
- They targeted mobile phone stores around north London, attacking guards
- Many of the gang had already served jail terms but re-offended after release
- CCTV footage shows them smashing their way into shops and storerooms
Ten moped robbers who attacked 17 mobile phone shops in a terrifying wave of smash and grab raids are facing jail.
Shocking footage shows how the gang stole phones, tablet computers and caused damage to more than £1million London stores using hammers, knives, a gun and even a fencing post as a battering ram.
They hit different 'Three Mobile' outlets several times in the early hours of the morning to grab the latest handsets and were in and out in 'a matter of minutes.'
Chris Costi, Bobby Kennedy and Alfie Kennedy were part of moped gang who caused huge damage during a campaign of raids in north London
Courtney White, Mominur Rahman and Mohammed Anwar Hussain were also all convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary
Adam Atallah and Dylan Castano-Lopez were also part of the moped gang who targeted shops
Chang Mabiala and Mohammed Imran Ali also face jail after final gang convictions today
Members of the gang threatened to shoot security guards in the head if they got in their way.
They left two officers with cuts after a violent struggle during another raid at a Wood Green store.
The members of the gang including two brothers are now facing jail after a Met Police investigation called Operation Vocare finally stopped them in their tracks.
Ringleader Courtney White, 22, his right-hand man Mominur Rahman, 22, along with Mohammed Hussain, 24, and Chang Mabiala, 22, were convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary after a four-week trial at Blackfriars Crown Court today .
Another man, Youssef Kaissouni, 46, was cleared of handling stolen goods.
Bobby Kennedy, 22, and Chris Costi, 19, were found guilty of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary after a trial at the same court in August.
Three other members of the gang including Bobby's brother Alfie Kennedy, 20, Dylan Castano-Lopez, 19, and Adam Atallah, 21, all admitted their part in the conspiracy.
Bobby Kennedy had only been released from prison two weeks before joining the raiders.
He had been in prison until September last year after being convicted of similar offences involving mopeds and the use of knives.
Rahman has an appalling criminal record and took part in a similar moped smash-and-grab robbery at a jewellers in Seven Sisters Road, Holloway in 2013.
He was locked up for 12 months at Southwark Crown Court in 2015 for his part in a £265,000 fraud which preyed on elderly and vulnerable victims.
Rahman celebrated his crimes by taking a selfie with a wad of cash against his face.
He was also involved, with two others, in another raid on an EE shop on Wood Green High Road in May last year.
White has previous convictions for possessing knives and residential burglaries dating back to 2009, when he was 14.
Police released this image of the variety of weapons and tools the gang used during the raids
Rahman posed with a wad of cash as his gang brought misery to store workers in the capital
He was sentenced to 12 months in young offenders' institution in 2013 for robbing a gold chain from a 76-year-old woman's neck in 2013.
White was handed a suspended jail sentence in November 2015 for handling jewellery stolen during the vicious mugging of a 61-year-old woman in north London.
Prosecutor Michael Shaw said the gang 'engaged in a series of robberies and aggravated burglaries' carried out between 1 May and 27 November last year.
'They were all at mobile phone shops using their mopeds and they would attack the guards with hammers.
'They would attack in the middle of the night - they would ride up and smash their way in - primarily shops from the Three network.
'They would loot the stock room and then ride off. They committed 17 of these attacks in the summer of last year. The damage, and the total value of the phones they took comes close to £1m.'
A map shows the locations of the 17 raids carried out by the gang in just six months
The gang targeted some shops more than once, with the Walthamstow branch of Three being hit four times.
Three placed security guards in stores overnight, but they were brutally attacked by gang members with chairs and hammers, while others swiped phones and tablets from the storeroom.
After getting away on the waiting mopeds the gang would dump them and book a cab away from the area.
Jurors heard gang members dressed in black in a bid to avoid detection but White was caught out by a distinctive mark on his helmet.
The prosecutor added: 'They would all turn up on mopeds and smash their way in. They would all wear a uniform, generally black and crash helmets.
'They would all wear black jackets, black trousers if they could because they had obviously thought about it.'
White, of Tottenham, Rahman, of , Camden, Hussain, of Hackney, and Mabiala of Islington, denied but were all convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary.
Kaissouni, of Hackney, denied and was cleared of handling stolen goods.
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