Ruthless Romanian people smuggler is jailed for more than three years after dousing his human cargo in bleach so they would avoid detection while they hid in the roof of his trailer Costel Nicuta, 42, has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison Smuggler doused his human cargo in bleach so that they … Read more
A farming boss says his company had spent £40,000 to fly 150 experienced Romanian farm workers to the UK to teach unskilled British fruit and vegetable pickers how to harvest. Anthony Gardiner, boss at G’s Growers, says the situation was getting desperate because their regular land army of foreign workers are locked down in their … Read more
Charter plane full of Romanian fruit pickers will land at Stansted tomorrow to fill farm labourer vacancies – despite coronavirus causing surge in UK unemployment Boeing 737 charter plane is arriving tomorrow with about 180 Romanian workers It is believed that not enough British workers have applied for farming jobs The charter plane is the … Read more
Two Romanian burglars who drilled through walls in ‘sophisticated’ raid on Fleet Street jewellers while using nearby half marathon as cover are found guilty of £300,000 heist Florin-Cristin Neagu, 46, and Sorin Munteanu, 44, are convicted of ‘daring’ raid Tried to drill into Fleet Street jewellers but first drilled into next door William Hill Southwark … Read more
A Romanian cleaner has denied involvement in a £50 million jewellery and cash raid on heiress Tamara Ecclestone’s home. Maria Mester, 47, and her 29-year-old son Emil-Bogdan Savastru are charged with conspiracy to commit burglary over the heist at Miss Ecclestone’s £70million mansion on ‘Billionaires’ Row’ in Kensington, west London, before Christmas. Miss Ecclestone, the … Read more
An American woman who was kidnapped at birth in her native Romania has been reunited with her family after 25 years apart. Belle Barbu was born to a low-income family in Romania who were falsely informed that she had a heart condition. They were sent away from the hospital while she ‘underwent treatment’ and were … Read more