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Criminal who infamously tried to rob Ozil and Kolasinac of £200,000 during Arsenal days now partially blind after attack
{by} Thesun.co.uk

A CAREER criminal who tried to rob ex-Arsenal aces Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac is now partially blind after losing an eye in a brutal jail attack.

Ashley Smith, 34, and his accomplice attempted to steal around £200,000 worth of luxury watches from the Premier League stars in July 2019.


Thugs attempted to rob the former Arsenal duo

CCTV showed Bosnia and Herzegovina hardman Kolasinac, 31, fighting them off as German Ozil, 36, protected his wife in his Mercedes G-Wagon.

Smith, who was armed with a knitting needle in Hampstead, north west London, was jailed for 10 years in November 2019 - before his term was cut to six years on appeal.

Footage filmed the night before his sentencing showed the thug being attacked in his HMP Pentonville cell as he pleaded: “It weren't me though. I swear to god. I can't see.”

The Sun can now reveal he lost the use of his left eye following the revenge attack for a robbery near where he lived in Islington, north London.

Smith claimed he had no involvement in the crime and was targeted for warning his co-defendant he was a marked man before coming to the prison.

He told The Blue Tick Show: “He was beating me up basically saying I robbed someone’s mum. I was like bruv, I don’t know what you’re talking about.

“The yout got me good, still. Savaged me, recorded it. I didn't even know it got recorded. I’ve gone to hospital, come out of the cells, collapsed, told the screws I’ve fallen out the bed.”

He added: “My eye. The yout took my eye but it’s life man. I just think, you know, all the skullduggery that I’ve done and got away with has caught up to me now.

“On the video you can’t see his face. He’s back on road. I wish him the best of luck. It is what it is. It’s life man. I thank god I’ve still got my other eye.

“I cried. I broke down. I lost my eye. A yout took my eye for something that I didn’t do.

“Like my nan would have said, what goes around comes around and you can’t cry when you’re out robbing. When you’re out robbing and s*** goes wrong, there’s consequences.”

The dad-of-one was on licence for a 42-month sentence for a burglary in 2017 when he tried to rob the Arsenal players outside Kolasinac’s house.

The soccer stars were pursued by the thugs on a stolen moped during a high-speed chase before they called the police from a Turkish restaurant in Golders Green.

Smith and his accomplice Jordan Northover, 31, who was sentenced to 18 years, both admitted attempted robbery at Harrow Crown Court.

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