BREAKING: Woman guilty of stealing £4,200,000 of diamonds and swapping them with pebbles
A woman has been found guilty of stealing seven diamonds worth £4.2 million from a luxury Mayfair jewellers by swapping them with garden pebbles.
Seven diamonds, including one worth £2.2 million, were to be placed in a padlocked purse and held in the New Bond Street store’s vault until funds were transferred. The jewellers’ diamond expert, Emma Barton, raised suspicions but the diamonds – believed to have been concealed in a hidden compartment – were not found in Lakatos’s handbag.
When the purse in Boodles’ safe was opened the following day, inside were seven small garden pebbles, and the real diamonds have never been recovered.
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