A man who should have been deported a decade ago from UK for stealing from a woman was yet again handed another 15 years imprisonment following another robbery incident.
Victor Okumu, 38, was in 2009 convicted of robbery with violence and handed 10 years imprisonment. A deportation notice was also issued.
But upon his release in 2014, he was yet a home by internal department under unclear circumstances. And early this year, he carried another robbery, forcing the court to jail him for 15 years, reports the Daily Mail.
Five years later Okumu pulled off a raid on Bradley’s jewellery store in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, in March.
He stormed the shop wearing a crash helmet and blue boiler suit and hurdled the counter, forcing terrified staff to hand over £441,640 in jewellery - only half of which has been recovered.
Okumu may have been carrying a knife as a female shop worker suffered a severely cut hand that required surgery, York Crown Court was told.
Detectives launched a manhunt against him and managed to arrest him and subsequently prosecuted him in court.
Their investigation revealed he had carried out reconnaissance of the premises over an eight-month period.
Okumu was identified from a CCTV still and he left some DNA at the scene.
They also found a WhatsApp chat in which Okumu tried to flog some of the jewellery.
Acting Detective Inspector Matthew Wilkinson of North Yorkshire Police said: "This was a professionally executed and violent robbery which was a truly terrifying ordeal for both the staff members involved and the members of public who were in close proximity to the jewellers as it took place."
He will now have to serve 15 years in jail and his deportation will be facilitated by United Kingdom to Kenya. He will leave without anything.
Cases of Kenyans being convicted in foreign countries are synonymous. Last year, politician Don Bosco Gichana was released from Tanzania after serving 5 years in prison over fraud.