Rita Ora burglar found guilty of £200,000 raid on home
A burglar has
been found guilty of raiding the home of pop star Rita Ora while she and her
sister slept upstairs.
Charaf El
Moudden, 26, took £200,000 worth of property from the former X Factor judge's
house during the burglary on 28 November last year.
Jewellery, bags and iPhones were among the items
taken from
the X Factor judge's home
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Her sister Elena
was awoken by a man rifling through items in her bedroom, prompting Ora to call
police.
Ten out of 12
jurors found El Moudden guilty at Harrow Crown Court.
'Woken by a
scream'
Jewellery, bags
and iPhones were among the items taken when two men broke into the star's home
in a targeted attack.
In a frantic 999
call played to jurors, Rita Ora told a call operator she would kill
one of the intruders.
During the call
she told the operator: "Oh my God I don't have a knife, I know they're
going to come upstairs."
Giving evidence
from behind a curtain, the singer said she was woken by her sister's screams.
"She just
ran up the stairs then she jumped on my bed and started screaming," she
said.
Charaf El Moudden was remanded in custody to
await sentencing.
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The court heard
Rita Ora's four-bedroom property in north-west London had been deliberately
chosen by El Moudden because he knew she lived there.
He has a number
of previous convictions including trying to sell pictures of the body of a dead
Harry Potter actor.
Wearing a pink
long-sleeved polo shirt, he put his head in his hands as the verdict was read
out.
Despite denying
involvement in the burglary, police discovered £3,500 in cash
"hidden" in an envelope in a sofa bed at El Moudden's home in north
London, at the time of his arrest in January.
In December 2006
he pleaded guilty to forcing entry to a Costcutter shop and stealing property
from inside the store.
Rita Ora gave evidence during the trial from
behind a curtain
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Five years later
he admitted breaking into a house in north-west London and stealing goods
including jewellery, watches, foreign currency and a BMW with a total value of
around £75,000.
El Moudden was
remanded in custody and will be sentenced at a later date.
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