Overview

• Boulares admitted threatening singer Aled Jones with a 20-inch machete in July 2023 and stealing his £17,000 Rolex
• He served only 14 months of a 24-month youth detention and training order before being released early and reoffending
• In February 2025 he snatched Bridgerton actress Genevieve Chenneour’s phone, leaving her concussed and traumatised
• Court documents list 12 previous convictions for 28 theft offences and detail an assault on Netta O’Carroll during a bag snatch in Chelsea
• His case underscores a broader surge in street crime as London logged over 70,000 phone-snatching incidents in 2024