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| Selfridges robbery: Five held over £1.5m watches theft | Selfridges robbery: Five held over £1.5m watches theft |
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| Five men have been held in connection with a smash-and-grab raid in which watches worth almost £1.5m were stolen from London's Selfridges store. | Five men have been held in connection with a smash-and-grab raid in which watches worth almost £1.5m were stolen from London's Selfridges store. |
| The men were arrested earlier when police raided eight addresses in Islington, north London. | |
| They are also being held over a robbery at a jewellery store in Windsor in Berkshire, in April. | |
| Two men have already been jailed for the Selfridges robbery which took place in June. | |
| Sam Curtin, 24, and Connor Groake, 19, both from Islington, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob and aggravated vehicle-taking. | Sam Curtin, 24, and Connor Groake, 19, both from Islington, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob and aggravated vehicle-taking. |
| Curtin was sentenced to 10 years while Groake was jailed for seven years, at Kingston Crown Court in July. | |
| Det Insp Bob Currie said the arrests showed "that the Flying Squad will continue to pursue those who choose to commit these types of offences, gathering the necessary intelligence to arrest them and bring them before the courts". |