Overview
- Ten men were sentenced on Friday, 7 November 2025, after a Met Flying Squad investigation into organised raids on mobile phone retailers across London.
- The group carried out at least 13 offences between September and November 2024, mostly targeting EE stores and stealing about £240,000 of high‑value devices after threatening staff to open secure stock rooms.
- Investigators linked suspects to crime scenes through CCTV analysis, DNA, phone and call data, and vehicle records, and they recovered stolen devices in subsequent searches.
- Officers arrested four men in the act at an EE shop in Kilburn on 19 November 2024, a tactical move that helped unravel the wider operation.
- Prison terms included 10 years for James Adodo and eight years six months for Mushtakim Miah, as BT/EE thanked police and signalled ongoing work on enhanced security with law enforcement.