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A former jewellery retailer supervisor in the UK was sentenced to twenty-eight months in jail after posting selfies sporting stolen merchandise and sending them to her coworkers, Humberside Police stated in a press release.
Lucy Roberts, 39, steadily took jewellery house together with her in the course of the yr she labored at a high-end store, police stated, telling suspicious coworkers she “was conducting work from home and sorting inventory for the workshop.” The police assertion doesn’t identify the shop.
It was solely when Roberts stop and went on trip that her colleagues realized the place the jewellery went, the assertion says. She started sending her former coworkers selfies from a cruise, decked out in objects taken from the store.
“With out a care on the earth, dripping in diamonds, pondering she had deceived all people,” Detective Sgt. Krista Wilkinson stated within the police information launch.
Police discovered “hundreds of kilos price of bijou strewn round in bins beneath the mattress and in cabinets,” after looking out her house, the assertion says.
In whole, Roberts stole greater than $170,000 in diamonds, gold, silver, “bespoke jewellery” and money from her employer, based on Wilkinson.
CNN was not in a position to decide whether or not Roberts has authorized illustration.
Police stated Roberts initially denied she had stolen any inventory from her employer, insisting she had borrowed the a few of the jewellery from a coworker and that they planted the opposite objects in her baggage, however she later entered a responsible plea for theft by an worker, receiving 28 months in jail.
Roberts was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport, based on police. They took her into custody after discovering her “sporting a considerable quantity of stolen jewellery” with extra pilfered merchandise in her suitcase, based on the assertion.
Physique digicam footage from the arrest exhibits Roberts eradicating extra jewellery “as she was escorted by means of Heathrow Airport … in an try to get rid of it,” police added.
The shop the place Roberts previously labored stated it’s “happy to lastly have closure on the matter after a number of years,” based on the information launch.
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