Miguel St Martin was the 'mastermind' behind the raids which took place at Boodles on March 26 this year and Yves St Laurent on April 24, Blackfriars Crown Court heard.

Prosecutor Michael Shaw told the court five gang members dressed in black and crash helmets targeted Boodles in Sloane Street, Knightsbridge.

Mr Shaw said the gang were armed with a deadly arsenal of weapons including axes, hammers and Samurai swords and arrived on mopeds and with a stolen Land Rover.

He said they attempted to use the Land Rover to smash into the side of the store before using a sledge hammer when that failed.

Mr Dimov told jurors how he grappled with one gang member outside Boodles before the others piled in.

Shocking moment a monster wave destroys balconies THREE storeys up on a seaside block of flats in Tenerife #wow

Smartly dressed men use their BELTS as makeshift weapons in shocking video, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK

Shocking moment thug almost knocks a woman police officer under a BUS with a flying kick - as members of the public walk past without helping

Karina Spiridonova (left and inset) is seen in black and wearing a hijab walking alone towards armed officers in Chechnya even as they fired warning shots #fools

It came after regional government officials decreed a state of alert as a fierce storm battered the north of Tenerife and other parts of the Canary Islands.

Footage has emerged on social media of the moment twelve dogs and a deer plunge off the side of a cliff during a hunt in the village of Herreruela, Spain. #fools #losers

We have lift-off! Virgin's Atlantic's converted plane 'Cosmic Girl' takes to the skies for the first time with 'LauncherOne' rocket attached

moment a man leaps off a wobbling lamppost on Westminster Bridge into the River Thames, London, UK. #fools

Footage shows the unnamed woman stripping to her underwear before discarding her hat and running across a boardwalk towards the lake in Russia #lol #losers

Amazing simulation gives you a virtual tour of the violent black hole at the centre of our galaxy #wow

Footage taken by a fellow passenger in Kashirskaya station in Moscow shows the young woman standing nonchalantly on the busy platform while the tame red fox sits patiently on her.

'Pleasure... what a name': Trump TWICE messes up the name of Paradise, the Californian town which was reduced to ashes by killer wildfires

Soldiers are beginning to install concertina wire and fencing along a stretch of the Rio Grande river in southwest Texas as Donald Trump prepares for the migrant 'invasion' from Central America.

Around 100 or so American troops from the 19th Engineer Battalion, based in Fort Knox, Kentucky have started to work on the fence for three days.

The soldiers are in Laredo, a busy border town overlooking a stretch of the Rio Grande river in southwest Texas, carrying out controversial orders from President Donald Trump.

He sent about 5,800 troops to the border to forestall the arrival of large groups of Central American migrants traveling through Mexico and towards the US.

Leftists and anarchists march shouting slogans against state repression and commemorate the 1973 Athens Polytechnic Uprising 45th Anniversary

Running street battles were fought through the early hours of Sunday as militant youth hurled Molotov gas bombs at police, breaking, also, slabs of concrete pavement used to stone authorities.

Greek police arrest 19 people as protest commemorating 1973 student uprising turns violent with 300 thugs in balaclavas and gas masks clashing with officers