28-year-old targeted athlete's home in Essex in November
A man from East London has admitted robbing Manx cyclist Mark Cavendish at his home in Essex last year.
Ali Sesay, from Holding Street in Rainham, stole a watch, phone and safe.
He also robbed his wife, Peta, of a watch, phone and suitcase.
The 28-year-old pleaded guilty at Chelmsford Crown Court today – he’d previously denied the two charges but changed his pleas to guilty at a hearing today (31 August).
Cavendish and his wife were threatened at their home in the Ongar area of Essex at about 2.35am on November 27.
Two more defendants, 31-year-old Romario Henry and Oludewa Okorosobo, 28, deny two counts of robbery and are due to stand trial from January 3.
Henry, of Bell Green in Lewisham in south-east London, and Okorosobo, of Flaxman Road in Camberwell in south London, are both remanded in custody.
Sesay was remanded in custody – his sentencing will be adjourned until the outcome of the trial of the other two defendants.
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