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Thieves snatched his phone in London - it was in China a month later
Akara tells the BBC about the journey his phone took after it was snatched from his hands by thieves.
PC Mat Evans, who has led a team working on this kind of crime for over a decade within West Midlands Police, admitted that only "quite a low number" of phones that are stolen actually get recovered. But policing minister Dame Diana Johnson said this week the government wanted manufacturers to ensure that any stolen phone could be permanently disabled to prevent it being sold second-hand. Apple and Android did not provide the BBC with a statement, but Samsung said it was "working closely with key stakeholders and authorities on the issue of mobile phone theft and related crimes".
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