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Thief who stole Brittny Ward’s jewellery is released and faces deportation
Mourad Aid has been released from prison after serving one year and five months for theft.
He stole a suitcase belonging to Brittny Ward, the wife of former Formula One driver Jenson Button, outside St Pancras Station in London in February 2025.
The suitcase held jewellery worth about £250,000, including two Kelly bags, and none of the items have been recovered.
Aid was sentenced to two years and four months after pleading guilty to theft and handling stolen goods, among other charges.
He was told he would be deported after his release, but Ward said she hoped he had already been sent out of the UK; that has not been confirmed.
Ward has called for tougher immigration rules and said she hopes Aid will not steal again.
Police are cracking down on luggage theft gangs around King's Cross and St Pancras, while the Home Office says foreign convicts will be barred from returning.
Mourad Aid, an Algerian man convicted of theft, has been released from prison and faces deportation, the Daily Mail reported.
He stole a suitcase belonging to Brittny Ward, which contained jewellery and bags valued at about £250,000.
Ward called for tougher rules on people entering the UK without permission and said she hoped Aid had been deported.
The stolen items have not been recovered.
Aid was sentenced to two years and four months in prison after pleading guilty to theft and other offences.
- Who
- Mourad Aid, an Algerian convicted thief, has been released and faces deportation. Brittny Ward was the victim of the suitcase theft.
- What
- Aid stole Ward’s suitcase, which contained jewellery and bags valued at about £250,000. He has since been released from prison.
- When
- Ward’s suitcase was stolen on February 13, 2025. Aid was reported released in November 2026.
- Where
- Outside St Pancras Station in London.
- Why
- Ward called for tougher rules on people entering the UK without permission. The sources do not state why Aid stole the suitcase.
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Aid stole a silver Rimowa cabin suitcase belonging to James Humphrey Evans.
Aid stole Ward’s suitcase outside St Pancras Station as she and Jenson Button prepared to travel to Paris.
Aid was sentenced to two years and four months in prison after pleading guilty to theft and other offences.
The Daily Mail reported that Aid had been released after serving one year and five months in prison and faced deportation.
- Victim
- Brittny Ward
- Suspect
- Mourad Aid, an Algerian man
- Theft location
- Outside St Pancras Station, London
- Theft date
- February 13, 2025
- Reported value
- About £250,000
- Sentence
- Two years and four months in prison
What people are saying
Hopefully, he has been deported and he will not make his way back. If you come to a country and commit crimes that is what should happen.
There needs to be a legal process to go live in a country and I think that our politicians need to wake up and see what's happening in other countries.
barred from ever returning