A serial thief who was given £3,000 to quit Britain took the money and came back the next day.
Hakim Benmakhlouf was half way through a jail term when authorities moved to deport him to his native Algeria.
No sooner had he got home, than he turned round and came back again to carry on with his lucrative life of crime here.
Benmakhlouf, 26, distracted victims by 'accidentally' spraying them with ketchup before stealing luxury goods worth thousands of pounds, Southwark Crown Court heard.
Described by police as 'highly professional', in one con, he sprayed ketchup on the back of a visitor to Madame Tussauds and while the flustered victim took off his jacket, Benmakhlouf stole his bag containing goods worth £2,500.
He had carried out numerous offences over the past ten years and was banned from Heathrow airport, the court was told.
At Victoria Station, he distracted another victim by spraying him with shaving foam and stole a bag containing £1,500.
Det Sgt Andy Swindells said: 'He is the best thief I have ever seen, the way he uses different techniques to distract his victims. Most commonly he sprayed a sauce like ketchup on their back.'
Benmakhlouf's crimes funded a luxury lifestyle. He lived in the exclusive St John's Wood district of London and wore designer clothes.
Jailing him for three years, Judge John Price told him: 'You are totally unpalatable in this society.'
Benmakhlouf, who admitted theft, will be deported to Algeria after the sentence, where he will serve eight-and-a-half years for other offences.
**This is New Labour showing how to be tough on crime, they bribe a criminal (shown above) scumbag to leave, he does and then flies back. Whats the odds that when he is released early he either slips away into the criminal underworld or if (and that is a remote if as he will no doubt appeal under human rights laws) he is deported he then flies back to the UK again...
New Labour unable to organise an orgy in a brothel.
2 people have spoken:
u can call him a thief yes!!!but to call him scumbag, that is very sad and low from you. Well don't forget we are all thiefs and they call us thiefs even do we are not, so i will give u some advice MR: SCUMBAG...NEVER UNDER ESTIMATE AND WATCH YOUR LINGO BECAUSE HIS ONLY A THIEF IN THE END OF THE DAY. INSTEAD YOU SHOULD READ MORE AND MORE ABOUT THEIR HISTORY mr mingo.
I see we have a savage in the house, some illegal migrant are you?
Well fuck you, he got his marching orders as will the rest come the day this shower of shit government is thrown out,
Oh fuck you the bloke is a cunt, as are you.
Oh lay of the caps-lock as it shows you for the wanker you are, cunt.
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