Lucy Roberts arrest: Trip selfies of a British girl ‘dripping in diamonds’ result in her arrest for jewellery theft, police say

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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 mentioned in an announcement.

Lucy Roberts, 39, steadily took jewellery residence along with her through the 12 months she labored at a high-end store, police mentioned, telling suspicious coworkers she “was conducting work from home and sorting inventory for the workshop.” The police assertion doesn’t title 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 gadgets taken from the store.

“And not using a care on the earth, dripping in diamonds, considering she had deceived everyone,” Detective Sgt. Krista Wilkinson mentioned within the police information launch.

Police discovered “1000’s of kilos price of bijou strewn round in packing containers beneath the mattress and in cabinets,” after looking out her residence, the assertion says.

In whole, Roberts stole greater than $170,000 in diamonds, gold, silver, “bespoke jewellery” and money from her employer, in response to Wilkinson.

CNN was not capable of decide whether or not Roberts has authorized illustration.

Police mentioned Roberts initially denied she had stolen any inventory from her employer, insisting she had borrowed the a number of the jewellery from a coworker and that they planted the opposite gadgets 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, in response to police. They took her into custody after discovering her “sporting a considerable quantity of stolen jewellery” with extra pilfered merchandise in her suitcase, in response to the assertion.

Physique digital camera footage from the arrest reveals Roberts eradicating extra jewellery “as she was escorted by Heathrow Airport … in an try and eliminate it,” police added.

The shop the place Roberts previously labored mentioned it’s “happy to lastly have closure on the matter after a number of years,” in response to the information launch.