A girl who stole over $165,000 value of diamonds, silver, and gold from a jewellery store she managed has been jailed for over two years after she despatched selfies carrying her stolen haul.
On Friday, June 20, Lucy Roberts, 39, of Swanland, East Yorkshire., was jailed for 28 months after pleading responsible to theft by worker at Grimsby Crown Court docket.
Humberside Police stated workers on the luxurious jewellery store she managed, Daniella Draper in Beverley, turned suspicious after Roberts began to take jewellery house together with her.
The thief informed colleagues she was simply working from house and sorting inventory for the store’s workshop.
She handed in her discover to the store after working there for a yr and jetted off on a cruise.
Her colleagues turned extra suspicious when she began to ship selfies the place she was carrying luxurious jewellery they knew she hadn’t bought.
Police had been contacted and investigations discovered that Roberts had made a number of fraudulent return transactions and falsified inventory takes.
A search of her bed room discovered 1000’s of kilos value of knickknack strewn round in containers beneath her mattress and in cabinets.
Police intercepted her on her return at Heathrow Airport, the place she was discovered ‘carrying a considerable quantity’ of stolen jewellery, with extra present in her suitcase.
Later, detectives reviewed police physique digital camera footage of Roberts as she was escorted via the airport and noticed she had been eradicating jewellery in an try to get rid of it.
At police interview, Roberts denied the allegations of theft and stated she’d borrowed jewellery from certainly one of her ex colleagues and stated the remainder of the jewellery had been planted in her suitcase.
Humberside Police’s detective sergeant Krista Wilkinson stated: “Roberts was an entrusted member of the store, liable for managing the shop and while working on the jewelers over the course of yr stole an estimated $169,882 value of knickknack and money.
“From her bed room 269 objects value a complete worth of $147,113 had been recovered and when arrested on the airport, Roberts was carrying roughly $1,383 of stolen objects, as properly 22 objects $18,912 value of knickknack was positioned in her suitcase.
“With out a care on the earth, dripping in diamonds, pondering she had deceived all people, Roberts arrogantly posed on social media and despatched footage boasting to her ex-colleagues concerning the nice time she was having on vacation, not pondering they might notice what she had been doing.
“From the images she despatched colleagues you would clearly see the excessive worth and distinctive items that she was carrying which she had not bought while working for the shop.
“While the corporate could promote luxurious merchandise, they’re nonetheless enterprise who depend on prospects and gross sales to have the ability to proceed to function and contribute to the neighborhood.
“I’m happy she is now behind bars and I hope it is going to give her ample time to consider the crime she dedicated and the way it has impacted not solely the corporate, however the colleagues who thought-about her a good friend and who had been betrayed by her in such a trusted function.”
Talking on courtroom conclusion, Daniella Draper jewelers stated: “We’re happy to lastly have closure on the matter after a number of years.
“We stay extremely grateful to Humberside Police Drive and our workers, who on the time of the investigation, labored tirelessly and diligently to result in this consequence and for justice to be achieved.”
