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.
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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.
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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.
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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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