Three men jailed after smash-and-grab robberies
Three men have been jailed for a combined eight years and six months after five smash-and-grab robberies at high-value fashion stores, during which vehicles were used to ram shopfronts.
Max Tyson and Ryan Brough each received three years and four months’ imprisonment at Inner London Crown Court on 29 October 2026. Harry Johnson received one year and 10 months’ imprisonment.
The Metropolitan Police said the group carried out the robberies over three months, between November 2025 and January 2026. Damage to the shops, together with the value of the stolen items, exceeded £1 million, the force said.
Two other men, Sonny Stringer and Olivier Ndayizeie, received suspended prison sentences. Those penalties are separate from the immediate custodial terms imposed on Tyson, Brough and Johnson, which together account for the eight-year-and-six-month total.
Five robberies over three months
The police account describes five robberies involving vehicles being used to ram the fronts of high-value fashion shops. The offending took place across a three-month period spanning the end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026.
The financial impact reported by the force combines two elements: the damage caused to the shops and the value of the items stolen. Together, those elements took the overall figure beyond £1 million across the five robberies.
That figure represents the combined damage and stolen property, rather than the value of the stolen goods alone. It also relates to the robberies collectively, rather than being a separate loss figure for any one of the shops.
The use of vehicles to ram shopfronts forms part of the police account of how the robberies were carried out. The damage to those premises is therefore included alongside the stolen items in the force’s assessment of the overall financial impact.
Immediate and suspended prison terms
Tyson and Brough received the same sentence: three years and four months each, equivalent to 40 months apiece. Their two terms together amount to six years and eight months, making up the largest part of the combined immediate prison sentences.
Johnson’s sentence of one year and 10 months is equivalent to 22 months. It is 18 months shorter than the term imposed on each of Tyson and Brough. Added to their sentences, it brings the total to 102 months, or eight years and six months.
The combined total describes the three immediate custodial sentences imposed by the court. It does not include either of the suspended terms received by Stringer and Ndayizeie, whose sentences were reported separately by the Metropolitan Police.
Stringer received a 22-month prison sentence suspended for 24 months. His prison term is the same length as Johnson’s, but the sentencing outcome is different: Johnson received an immediate custodial sentence, while Stringer’s term was suspended.
For Stringer, the 22-month prison term and the 24-month suspension period are distinct parts of the sentence. The suspension period is two months longer than the prison term and does not form part of the combined immediate-custody total.
Ndayizeie received a 36-week prison sentence suspended for one year. His sentence, like Stringer’s, was suspended rather than imposed as an immediate prison term. Across the five men, the outcomes were therefore three immediate custodial sentences and two suspended sentences.
