Former world boxing champ’s wife screamed and cried as gunman pointed firearm in Khan’s face

The former world boxing champion Amir Khan has described looking down the barrel of a gun – as an armed robber forced him to hand over his £70,000 diamond-encrusted watch – as scarier than anything he has faced in the ring.

The 2004 Olympic silver medallist told a court that he could hear his wife, Faryal Makhdoom, “screaming and crying” next to him as the robber pointed a gun at his face and said: “Take off the watch.”

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