Crime
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Jun- 2025 -3 June
UK Protection joins SaferGems as affiliate sponsor
SaferGems, a UK-wide initiative combating crime in the jewellery, pawnbroking, arts and antiques industry, has appointed security specialists of UK Protection Ltd as an affiliate sponsor in a two-year deal. The initiative is founded and funded by the National Association of Jewellers and TH March and hosted by the British…
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Jan- 2025 -31 January
Jeweller loses £50k in bank scam
A jeweller, who asked to remain anonymous, has lost nearly £50,000 to a scam in which fraudsters posed as Barclays Bank’s fraud department, the National Fraud Helpline revealed. The scam took place in April 2024, when the jeweller received a phone call from someone claiming to be ‘Andrew’ from Barclays,…
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Jan- 2024 -9 January
GIA to offer same-day report verification
GIA has announced that it will offer clients a same day service to verify GIA inscriptions, beginning next week, confirming that a diamond with a GIA inscription matches the inscribed GIA report number. The new service is offered in response to reports of fraudulent GIA inscriptions on laboratory-grown diamonds cut…
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Nov- 2020 -16 November
Robbers steal £100,000 from Cambridgeshire jewellers
Cambridgeshire Police have released video footage of four masked men breaking into a jewellery store in Ely at around 3am on 13 November. Police were called to Italian Jewellery in the early hours of the morning to reports of a break in at the store on Ely’s High Street Passage.…
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Oct- 2020 -5 October
Hatton Garden burglar ordered to pay back nearly £6m
The final member of the Hatton Garden burglary gang to be jailed has now been ordered to pay back nearly £6m by the Met Police, or serve an extra seven years in jail. Michael Seed was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in March 2019 after being found guilty of conspiracy…
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Sep- 2020 -7 September
Yorkshire jewellers hit with armed robbery
A West Yorkshire jeweller has been robbed by three men who were reportedly armed with sledgehammers. According to local reports, the crime occurred at Wetherby-based store Kendall’s Jewellers shop last Saturday (5 September). The Yorkshire Evening Post reported that officers were called to the scene at about 1.18pm to reports…
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3 September
Leicestershire police launch appeal after jewellery store robbery
Officers are appealing for witnesses after jewellery was stolen from a local jewellers in Market Harborough. A local report from the Harborough Mail has named the shop as high street business County Jewellers. According to Leicestershire police, the robbery happened shortly before 1.30am yesterday (1 September) at the premises. It…
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Aug- 2020 -17 August
Jeweller’s ban extended after breaching court orders
A jeweller from North West London has received an 11-year ban after he breached a court order that allowed him to act as a director. Daniel Simon Brodie will begin his 11-year directorship disqualification on 24 August. After this date, he will be banned from acting as a director, or…
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11 August
Appeal launched after £22,000 worth of jewellery stolen
Surrey Police have issued a CCTV appeal after £22,000 worth of jewellery was stolen from a Reigate jewellers in a “distraction burglary”. Officers were called to Philip Lloyd Jewellers in Reigate town centre following reports of the burglary, which took place on 18 July. According to the police, the young…
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Jul- 2020 -20 July
Bira backs plans for tougher shoplifting penalties
The British Independent Retailers Association (Bira) has welcomed government plans to take a tougher stance on shoplifting. Home Secretary Priti Patel recently announced the Government would be writing to police chiefs to advise that shoplifters stealing items to the value of £200 should be prosecuted. The decision follows a major…
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