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Subscribe to RSSAmateur video of the robbery shown in this TODAY.com's file video from August 2011.
Two men have been found guilty of robbing an injured student as they pretended to help him during last summer's riots in London - an act that was caught on camera and provoked outrage across Britain.
The pair were convicted of robbery and violent disorder, the BBC reported.
Their victim, Malaysian accountancy student Ashraf Rossli, 20, had been in the UK for just a month when he was attacked on 8 August 2011 in the east London district of Barking.
Handout pictures obtained from the Metropolitan Police show British teenager Beau Isagba (L) who was convicted in February 2012 of assaulting and stealing from a Malaysian student during last year's London riots, Reece Donovan (C) and John Kafunda (R) who were found guilty on March 2, 2012 of posing as Good Samaritans to steal from the student in an incident caught on camera. Kafunda was convicted of robbery and violent disorder. Donovan was convicted of theft, violent disorder and later robbing a supermarket.
Rioters had brought chaos to the streets with widespread violence and petty crime.
The Evening Standard newspaper reported that Rossli was on his way to a friend's house when his bicycle was stolen and he was punched, breaking his jaw in two places.
As Rossli stumbled along a road, covered in blood, John Kafunda, 22, and Reece Donovan, 24, appeared to help by steering him away from the violence - but instead from stole items from his backpack.
A portable Sony PlayStation games console, a wallet and other items were taken, valued at a total of $750 (£500).
Footage of the incident, captured on a mobile phone and circulated on the internet, prompted outrage in Britain where well-wishers raised more than $27,000 (£22,000) for Rossli to help him recover and continue his studies.
The Evening Standard report said judge at London's Wood Green Crown Court told the men they can both expect lengthy custodial sentences when they are sentenced on 13 March Last month, Beau Isagba, 17, was found guilty of assaulting Rossli and stealing his bike. He will be sentenced on 9 March.
Ch Supt Gary Buttercase, of the Metropolitan Police, said: "I have met Mr Rossli and he is a man of humility and dignity and a tremendous credit to his country."
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Hope those 3 scumbags burn in hell! Big tough guy losers they were assaulting a much smaller individual, what cowards - give me a chance with them and they'll see how their victim felt and then some - bitches! JUSTICE for the poor victim!
The judge will take into consideration that giving them a heavy sentence could cause another riot especially since it was started after an arrest of a black man and will let them off with probation. In the early 80's during the Bristol riots they killed a cop and never got jailed because society were frightened that it would cause another riot. This is called community bridge building, I call it murder and BS.
Is it just me, or are skinhead criminals in the UK uglier than those in other countries? Their mothers should definitely have been on contraception.
"Skinheads" really? 2 of the 3 are BLACK. I have never known of a black "Skinhead" but maybe that's "just me"... You are definitely right about the contraception part though.
Actually Skinheads in UK have included blacks for many years now. Neo-Nazi skinheads obviously don't, but original Skinheads do. It wasn't really a racist movement to start with. It was a movement of young men from working class neighborhoods. Their attacks were not based on racial hatred. Though, they did despise and attack "Pakis" (mainly immigrants from Pakistan) because they usually owned stores and other small business in poor neighborhoods, so skinheads viewed them as kind of an enemy of the working class. Skinheads outside UK are almost always white-supremacists though.
Hmm okay, learn something new everyday LOL! Still, the one on the left has too much hair to be a skinhead..
This is one of the disadvantages of a multi-cultural society...it changes the cultural norms. England has a tainted society. She has lowered her standards to accommodate the non-English and she is worse for it.
Yes yes and YES BILL-H
Bill H, LOL, you just described the US to a T!
And you know these 3 aren't Brits, how exactly? For all you know their families have lived in England for centuries. Multiculturalism has been alive and well around the globe for thousands of years, you do realize that, right?
These punk predators are going to be tossed into a big dark cage with the rest of their kind. A couple of months from now all three will be squeelin' from the feelin' and oinkin' from the boinkin'.
Well, when oppertunity knocks, can't really blame them for trying.
And if the same thing were to happen to you, would you blame them for trying?
yeah, you can blame them Chris, and they did! What part of their criminal behavior and moronic actions did you like best? I have encountered people like these A**holes and your own kind often in my life and found you to be useless oxygen thiefs - only in it for yourself. Turns out - pretty gutless as well
I'm glad these three low-life's were caught. They will certainly get what they deserve in prison.
the one on the right is a scumbag, first he helped him to stand up and walked him like 3 steps forward and once he saw the other gay opening his backpack then he decided to change from good Samaritan to an as@sh*le, why that sudden change ? well now he'll get some time in jail.
70% of crime in UK is carried out by blacks is it a surprise that 2 of the 3 in that incident were black. For a white woman in UK the statistic is even worse, 80% of rapes against white woman are by blacks. I think it is an African jungle thing about curing disease if you rape a white woman or something. The whole place is going down the toilet and no prizes for guessing what colour a turd is!
tough gun laws sure do help curb violance
im progun rights, but come on. what do you think would have happened if people owned guns over there? what happened during the king riots....
this story made my day. not only these three were located but that the person who assaulted him had been arrested. also great to see the english put together all of that money to help out the victim, nice job!
My god, those three are ugly as sin!