£100,000 jewel thief jailed after airport arrest

WOMAN TOOK HOLIDAY SELFIES WITH BLING SHE HAD STOLEN FROM BEVERLEY STORE

- By MARK PAGE [e-mail] @markwpage

DIAMONDS proved to not be a girl’s best friend for an East Yorkshire woman who has been jailed after stealing more than £100,000 worth of diamonds, silver, gold and bespoke jewellery from a shop she managed.

Lucy Roberts, aged 39, of Mill Road, Swanland, admitted theft by an employee at Grimsby Crown Court and was sentenced to 28 months in prison.

The offences took place over more than a year between 2017 and 2018. She was arrested at Heathrow Airport when she returned from a cruise during which she flaunted the stolen bling from the Daniella Draper store, in Beverley, in selfies she sent to former colleagues.

Staff had become suspicious of Roberts when she began to take jewellery home with her which she had claimed to them at the time was because she had work to do and was sorting stock for the workshop.

She handed her notice in after a year of managing the store.

She later headed off on a cruise and her former colleagues knew she had not purchased the jewellery she was wearing in the photos sent back to them and informed the area manager.