French woman, 59, is charged with Ocean’s Eleven-style diamond theft at Boodles of Mayfair

French woman, 59, is charged with Ocean’s Eleven-style diamond theft ‘by swapping gems for pebbles’ at Boodles of Mayfair Lulu Lakatos, 59, was charged with conspiracy to steal over theft in March 2016 Suspect was extradited from France yesterday and will appear at court today She is alleged to have posed as gemologist before swapping … Read more

How Boodles was bamboozled by a high-class gang in a £4million Ocean’s Eleven-style heist in London

At society jeweller Boodles, diamonds are a girl’s best friend.   Or as its managing director Michael Wainwright once told a TV documentary: ‘A lot of girls like diamonds and some girls absolutely adore them and those are the girls we are after!’ One such girl arrived at the 200-year-old firm’s Bond Street headquarters at 11.09am … Read more

Ocean’s Eleven-style gang member who stole £4m gems from Mayfair jewellers jailed for four years

A gang member who stole £4million worth of gems from a Mayfair jewellers in one of the biggest shoplifting thefts in British criminal history has been jailed for nearly four years. Mickael Jovanovic was part of a crack team who tricked staff at Boodles into handing over precious jewels then used sleight of hand to … Read more