Saturday, June 10, 2006

Smash ,grab and cycle

Meanwhile, a thief made off with an estimated £25,000 worth of rings from another Edinburgh jewellers. The thief stunned on-lookers when he took a sledgehammer to the window of the Hamilton and Inches store in George Street yesterday morning.

He then grabbed a tray of rings from the window display, with many of them falling to the ground in his haste, and sped off on a bicycle.

Staff at the store quickly picked up the rings that had been dropped, and believe the raider managed to hold on to five rings, each worth up to £5000.

The man had been seen cycling past the store just before the robbery.

He was described as being about 6ft, white, slim, and was wearing a dark T-shirt, a black baseball cap and black jeans.

A police spokesman said: "This was a particularly brazen smash and grab raid."

2 comments:

yellowdoggranny said...

u would think that they would have unbreakable glass with all those rings in the window...serves them right

dom said...

One would think so, plus surely someone could have caught up with a bloody bike