'Grandpa robbers' held Kardashian at gunpoint - but didn't know who she was

Suspects who are accused of robbing Kim Kardashian at gunpoint in October 2016 stand trial in Paris.

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When he woke up, his wife was glued to the TV. The headline news of the day was that American reality TV star Kim Kardashian, then 35, had been tied up and robbed at gunpoint in a luxury Paris apartment.

All her jewellery - worth about $10m (£7.5m), and including the engagement ring her then-husband and rapper Kanye West gifted her, which alone was worth $4m (£3m) - had been taken.

Yunice Abbas' wife glared at him. "This has you written all over it," she grumbled.

She was right. The 62-year-old had dabbled in crime his whole life, from petty offences to bank heists.