Two Men Charged With £40m Graff Gem Heist After Police Dressed as Bankers Pounce in Bar


	Two Men Charged With £40m Graff Gem Heist After Police Dressed as Bankers Pounce in Bar

merrie

8-21-2009 7:52 AM

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armed robbers arrested, graff diamonds london august 6, jewelry thieves, undercover police

merrie says:

Police have also seized materials used by a make-up artist who changed the robbers' hair and skin tone.

Forty-three items of jewelry were stolen at gunpoint after two smartly dressed men strolled into the New Bond Street store.

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