An armed robber who used website Gumtree to target a couple and threaten to shoot them in their own home has been jailed for two years.
Awhan Edani posed as a buyer for two iPhones listed on the online classifieds site but, when he met the sellers at their Surbiton home on November 3, last year, he pulled out a black handgun and threatened to shoot them.
The 21-year-old from Harrow told the couple he had an envelope of money to pay them and, on being offered a plastic bag to put the phones in, threatened them at gunpoint, Kingston Crown Court heard.
The court heard that at 7.30pm on the same day, Edani sold the two mobiles to a Harrow phone shop for £958.
Defending, Daniel Cummins said Edani had suffered from depression for some time due to financial difficulties and a girlfriend who was not accepted by his family.
Edani was sentenced on Tuesday, March 6, to two-and-a-half years for two counts of robbery and one of possession of a firearm or imitation firearm.
Police said they were able to identify Edani within three hours of the crime because the phone’s IMEI numbers were reported straight away.
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