Baseer Ahmed was sentenced to four years in prison Monday, while Mohammad Kermani was sentenced to a little more than one year.
The two were the last to be sentenced of the four men who robbed People’s Jewellers in Kitchener’s Fairview Park Mall in December 2010.
In a quick robbery that even the Crown admitted was well-planned, the quartet grabbed more than $200,000 worth of jewelry and speedily made their way to a getaway car.
During the heist, Ahmed was wearing a wrestling mask – later recovered nearby – and using a fake gun to order people to the ground.
None of the jewelry was ever recovered.
In court, Ahmed said he is now considered a “disappointment and disgrace” to his family.
“My sister is going to graduate from medical school, my brother from law school,” he said.
“Me … I’m going to jail.”
Unlike his three cohorts, Kermani was not involved in a similar robbery in Guelph.
In Kitchener, his role was to break display cases with a hammer, grab as much as he could hold, and run.
Crown prosecutor David Russell said the main reason for Kermani receiving a lesser sentence was his past as a “straight-A student” who had never been in trouble with the law before or since.
“It was amazing that he did this,” Russell said.
