Don't miss out on the big stories from Manchester's courts with our weekly newsletter Police have released footage of the moment a thief slipped a woman's Rolex watch off her hand while dancing in front of her and her partner.
West Midlands Police said Abdelhadi Bahou-Jabour had used a 'bizarre' distraction technique, sometimes referred to as the ‘Ronaldinho’, in his attempts to steal two luxury watches from the couple.
The CCTV footage shows Bahou-Jabour, who lives in Nottingham, approaching the pair on Colmore Row, Birmingham, at about midnight on July 10. READ MORE: After high-fiving the pair, the 24-year-old pulled out some dance moves, which officers described as 'Part Bruce Forsyth, part Artful Dodger'.
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