A teenager who threatened to decapitate TV presenter Aled Jones, snatched his \u00a317,000 watch and tried to steal a Bridgerton star’s phone has been jailed again after admitting another two armed Rolex robberies.<\/p>\n
Zacariah Boulares, 19, ambushed Songs Of Praise star Jones in Chiswick High Road in July 2023.<\/p>\n
He was sent to youth detention, was released, and then jailed last year for a string of thefts including trying to steal Bridgerton actress Genevieve Chenneour’s mobile phone on Kensington High Street.<\/p>\n
At Southwark Crown Court on Thursday, Boulares was sentenced to two years and 10 months imprisonment for arming himself with a machete to commit two more robberies in August 2023.<\/p>\n
Prosecuting, Lydia Stephens said Boulares had “aggressively brandished a large blade” and used “extreme intimidation” on the latest two victims, who each wore a Rolex watch.<\/p>\n
They reported him issuing threats like “give me the watch or I’ll chop your hand off” and believed they were about to be “slashed”, the court heard.<\/p>\n
Sentencing him, Judge Jas Jandu said: “You clearly acted in a way that was totally unacceptable, rampaging around the streets with a deadly weapon, robbing people in broad daylight or attempting to do so and you should be ashamed of that.”<\/p>\n
At a previous sentencing, Judge Martin Edmunds told Boulares: “You seem to be plagued by an attitude that if people can afford nice things, then you can take them.”<\/p>\n
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