AMIR Khan has revealed he’s now scared to go out after being held up at gunpoint for his £72,000 watch.
The former world champ, 36, said it “felt like a lifetime” between the moment the gun was first pointed at his head to when he handed over the diamond-encrusted timepiece.
Amir – an Olympic silver medallist in 2004 – has opened up about the horror, which unfolded almost a year ago to the day.
Two men admitted involvement in the robbery, on April 18 last year.
In recent weeks two others were found not guilty of acting as spotters.
The 36-year-old exclusively spoke to The Sun after the hearing, and this morning sat down for an interview with Good Morning Britain.
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Amir bravely recalled the terrifying night when he handed over his £72,000 watch at gunpoint in London.
He told Good Morning Britain: “Life just goes past you, you think about your family, your children.
“It felt like a lifetime but it probably lasted only 10-15 seconds.”
CCTV snapped the moment the boxer left a restaurant with wife Faryal when a gang pulled up in a Merc, pointed the weapon in his face and demanded his watch.
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Amir recalled: “I remember looking straight in the barrel when he put it right in front of me. Down the barrel.
“I thought if he is going to shoot, I need to look away.”
He revealed he still feels scared today, and has moved his family abroad as elsewhere feels safer than the UK.
Amir said: “I’m very picky now where I go. I pick and choose what time I go to places and make sure that sometimes I take security with me if I go to a very busy place.
“But it’s made it a little bit difficult to just travel on my own or with my family to places where I would not normally go.
“I am a little bit scared now when I go to different places.”
He said he now always has his wife, and three young children, at the forefront of his mind.
The boxer continued: “When you have a family, you have children, you start to think differently – you’re doing it for them.
“I just want to make sure I’m going to be safe. I want to see them grow up.”
It felt like a lifetime but it probably lasted only 10-15 seconds.
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Speaking of shifting to Dubai, Amir said: “It’s a lot safer for me. Living abroad, being abroad.
“I just feel a little bit safer bringing my kids up and taking them out there. I don’t have no fear.
“It did shock me a little bit and put me in a lot of fear. I feel a lot more comfortable when I’m over there. “
The 36-year-old still praises his wife, who ran to scream for help during the ordeal.
He said: “I remember him having the gun on the side of my head, I could feel it and obviously I looked back at my wife.
“She ran back onto the road, she’s probably the best thing that ever happened. I’m lucky she was there.”
It comes as Amir was today banned from boxing for two years after testing positive for an illegal substance after his Kell Brook fight.
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He pocketed a staggering £5million for defeating his rival but it has now emerged he tested positive for ostarine in the aftermath of the defeat.
Khan has claimed ingestion of the banned substance was not intentional.
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