A teenage boy who smashed the side of a £3 million Bugatti with a hammer during a robbery spree through Mayfair has been locked up for 16 months.
The boy was just 15 when he joined 20-year-old Ronnnie Reid on a 45-minute rampage through central London, hunting for wealthy victims wearing luxury watches who they could rob.
The teenager donned a Deliveroo uniform as a disguise together with a mask, and was armed with a hammer.
The dramatic moment the boy smashed the side of the supercar was caught on camera by a motoring enthusiast who had been filming the Bugatti.
At Highbury Corner magistrates court last week, the teenager was sentenced to a 16-month detention and training order.
Magistrates concluded the boy must be locked up for the “planned and premeditated” robbery spree which included “extensive use of violence”.
“Victims suggested extensive psychological harm including paranoia and anxiety and these events have changed the way they lead their everyday lives”, they said.
“In some cases it has had an effect on family members.”
Reid was convicted at trial for his part in the crime spree, and is in custody awaiting sentence at Southwark crown court.
The robbers collected stolen mopeds from a garage in north London, before riding into central London on August 21 last year in search of victims.
“The pair were primarily focused on robbing people of expensive wrist watches”, said prosecutor Dickon Reid.
“They were simply driving around looking for potential targets in the Belgravia and Mayfair district of central London.”
The first incident happened at around 4pm, when brothers Justin and Bradley Rizza - both wearing expensive Rolex watches - were walking through Cadogan Square carrying Fortnum and Mason shopping bags.
The teenage boy drove his moped towards the brothers while the other rider attempted to “box them in”, said Mr Reid.
“Justin Rizza was confronted by Reid who screamed aggressively ‘what have you got?’ and tried to get him to hand over items.
“Mr Rizza described trying to seek some form of protection by moving between parked cars, and said the moped rider was trying to run him over.”
Bradley Rizza tried to vault a fence to escape, but his shoe “became impaled on the spikes and he was suspended upside down”, said the prosecutor.
Undeterred by the failed robberies, the two moped riders rounded on Auday Tokatly 20 minutes later close to Harrods.
Mr Tokatly was dragged to the ground, kicked and punched in the head and legs, but an attempt to steal his Rolex was thwarted when a car turned the corner, affording the victim the chance to flee and seek refuge with Harrods security.
Abdullah Al Basman, a guest at the 5-star Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge, was driving the Bugatti Chiron when he came under attack, apparently for the luxury watch he was wearing.
He was in traffic on Park Lane when his supercar was struck repeatedly with a hammer, but he managed to drive away before the robber got into the vehicle.
Minutes later, Michael McKeown, who was wearing a £75,000 Audemars Piguet watch, was sitting with his wife outside a restaurant when he saw the mopeds approaching.
He fled along Curzon Street in Mayfair but was knocked down by another vehicle in his attempt to escape.
He was then rammed by the 15-year-old’s moped, and Mr McKeown’s wife Juste had “a machete pointed in her face” when she kicked one of the moped riders in a bid to protect her husband.
The final victim was Andrei Karkar, who was rammed to the ground and attacked in a successful bid to steal his luxury timepiece.
That robbery was caught on shocking CCTV, showing the two teenagers inflicting gratuitous violence on Mr Karkar before fleeing.
Reid, from Finsbury Park, north London, was convicted of damaging property, having an offensive weapon, four counts of attempted robbery, dangerous driving, threatening another with an offensive weapon, and robbery.
The 15-year-old boy, also from north London, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, criminal damage, possessing an offensive weapon, robbery and five counts of attempted robbery.
He also admitted being in breach of a youth referral order, which was imposed for drug possession, driving without a licence or insurance, and possession of a zombie knife.
