Moment brazen crime tourists steal 15k of jewellery in plain sight from shop while on country-wide shoplifting spree [Video]

A pair of brazen thieves were caught on CCTV stealing £15,000 worth of gold chains from a shop while on a crime spree totalling almost £50,000 across the country.

Married Vadar-Ghimes and Zinca Agafitei, both 46, were arrested after taking ten gold chains worth £15,000 from a jeweller’s in Norfolk.

Enquiries revealed they had swiped jewellery worth another £48,000 from other locations around the Midlands and southern England in just a few weeks – after being allowed into the country despite a ‘similar’ spree of distraction thefts and burglaries, mainly at small, independent businesses in Italy, Malta, Turkey and Germany.

They have now been jailed for 27 months each after admitting three charges of burglary and two of theft. Vadar-Ghimes also admitted a fraud charge.

The couple had committed theft across counties including Warwickshire, Sussex, Wiltshire, Suffolk and Norfolk between May 14 and July 29. 

The pair of them were finally arrested after striking at TheGold …