{"id":9030,"date":"2017-08-29T12:46:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T16:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2017-08-30T12:14:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T16:14:54","slug":"west-hams-andy-carroll-watch-robbery-999-call-ones-pulling-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/08\/29\/west-hams-andy-carroll-watch-robbery-999-call-ones-pulling-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham’s Andy Carroll watch robbery 999 call ‘One’s pulling out a gun’"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Ham striker Andy Carroll has given evidence after a gun-wielding motorcyclist tried to rob him of his watch at traffic lights last year.<\/p>\n

The Premier League footballer was returning home from his club’s training ground when he was chased by two motorcycles, Basildon Crown Court heard.<\/p>\n

Jack O’Brien, 22, denies attempting to rob the 28-year-old on 2 November 2016.<\/p>\n

Carroll’s 999 call was played to the jury, in which he was heard saying: “There’s two motorbikes, one’s behind me pulling out a gun, I don’t know what to do.”<\/p>\n

Beeping is heard in the background, and Carroll tells the call handler: “Oh s***, I’ve hit loads of cars, I don’t know what to do, he’s just hit my car.”<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Simon Gladwell told the court that two bikers chased Carroll after one approached him at a set of traffic lights in Hainault, northeast London, and demanded his \u00a322,000 watch.<\/p>\n

Carroll told the jury: “I just pulled up at the traffic lights, my window was open, a bike pulled up next to me and said ‘Nice watch’.”<\/p>\n

He said he replied “thanks” and told the court he thought he recognised the biker.<\/p>\n

“He had his crash helmet on with his visor up,” said Carroll.<\/p>\n

“I stared at him for about 10 seconds as I thought I recognised him and thought he was going to have a conversation. I went to drive away and he said ‘Give me your watch’.”<\/p>\n

He said to start with he “didn’t know if it was a joke” but, when he did a U-turn, both bikes turned and followed him.<\/p>\n

He eventually arrived back at the training ground and told the 999 operator there were security staff there.<\/p>\n

At one point he tells the call handler: “I’m a Premier League footballer.”<\/p>\n

“I’ve probably just hit about 10 cars on the way here,” he said.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Simon Gladwell said police arrested Mr O’Brien at a house in Dagenham, where they found him in the front bedroom “hiding in the bed frame under the mattress”.<\/p>\n

Mr Gladwell said police seized a crash helmet and Ducati jacket at the east London property and a Suzuki motorbike was seized from the back garden.<\/p>\n

“The motorcycle used in the alleged attempted robbery was the same motorcycle that was seized at the time of Jack O’Brien’s arrest,” he added.<\/p>\n

The court heard that the rider of the bike used in the alleged attempted robbery wore the same crash helmet and jacket seized at the time of Mr O’Brien’s arrest.<\/p>\n

Mr Gladwell said Mr O’Brien had pleaded guilty to a string of burglaries in October and November 2016 in April, in which items including jewellery, watches and cash were stolen.<\/p>\n

“At the time of each of the burglaries Jack O’Brien used the same motorcycle that was used in the attempted robbery of Andy Carroll,” said Mr Gladwell.<\/p>\n

He added that in each of the burglaries Mr O’Brien also used the same crash helmet and jacket worn by the biker in the attempted robbery of Mr Carroll.<\/p>\n

Michael Edmonds, defending, said Mr O’Brien, of Navarre Gardens, Romford, east London, was not the biker.<\/p>\n

He said Mr O’Brien had used the motorcycle, jacket and helmet for crime before, but that it was he was not using the bike on that occasion.<\/p>\n

The trial continues.<\/p>\n

Source: \u00a0\"Sky<\/a> SkyNews.Com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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