Who brings £2.2m of jewels into a pub, in an insainly expensive bag and presumably leaves it unattended?
Posted by llynglas@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 133 comments
If I'm in the pub, even with just my backpack full of library books. I'm either holding onto it or watch>ng it like a hawk the entire time I'm there. Or better. if I'm carrying over a million in jewelry, I may skip visiting the pub totally.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/09/london-pub-thief-sold-faberge-egg-and-watch-for-drugs?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Portas30k@reddit
I looked the lady up on linkedin. Looks like she went straight from uni into wealth management roles and executive positions. Young lady learnt an expensive lesson early in her career! Lol
nouazecisinoua@reddit
She climbed from assistant to Head Of in under 18 months, then quickly onto Director, across 2 companies both owned by the same guy.
Who knows, maybe she was extremely impressive from the start, but I wouldn't exactly be surprised if there was some kind of family link.
Safe-Professional556@reddit
Or he was shagging her... could still be a family thing... :/
snapper1971@reddit
That's way champ, shit on the woman with allegations of sexual exploitation if all else fails.
Fucksakes. Have a word with yourself.
odkfn@reddit
I’m obviously normally against this sort of thing but if we weighed up likelihoods - her career trajectory is insanely unusual.
snapper1971@reddit
So she's got to be a bit of a whore to get anywhere? That's what you're saying.
fundytech@reddit
Pretty much the most likely outcome. You don’t get that high that fast - if what the comment about her progression says is true that’s decades of progression for anyone else done by her in a couple of years.
No chance. She’s either opening her legs to rise the ranks or her dad is the boss.
Taken_Abroad_Book@reddit
No, this clearly inept person is just really good 🙄
odkfn@reddit
That’s not at all what I’m saying.
A person who has had an astronomical rise up two companies owned by a single person, surpassing loads of others to get there, but also forgetful / silly enough to leave millions lying.
One of two things happened - she’s the best, most skilled, person who is an absolute genius with the gift of the gab. Or she’s getting a foot up some other way.
I’m not saying which it is or isn’t as I don’t know her, I’m just saying one is more likely by quite some margin. Again, not because I know her and I’m accusing her, or speaking about women in general. I’m going by the odds of a person of any gender being so great at their job they fly up through the ranks at that speed.
You’re trying to see misogyny where there is none.
tannercolin@reddit
No he is saying her career trajectory is unusual
The only person saying whore is you
Routine_Ad1823@reddit
Yeah, good point. She's clearly a highly competent worker.
LambonaHam@reddit
*competent wanker
feckarse-drinkgirls@reddit
Certainly climbed a form of greasy pole
LambonaHam@reddit
Seems like they did. It's fairly likely either she's related, or shagging the owner. Hardly uncommon is it?
Enough_Response@reddit
She was reckless with 2 million quid. That's the easiest sacking ever.
If you have that in your possession you pay for G4S to pick it up and take it back where it belongs.
snapper1971@reddit
You'd be horrified by reality. I work in the fine art sector and it isn't unusual to see valuables worth far more than that just being chucked in the back of a run-of-the-mill twenty-year old motor because it doesn't attract attention at all.
MarlaSaysSlide@reddit
My old boss used to collect art and at one point we had a Salvador Dali just propped up on the floor in the entryway of the building with nothing but an old blanket protecting it
TotallyFineWithIt@reddit
Then does the driver walk into a busy pub with them, leave them out of their sight and grab a drink?
Diplomatic_Gunboats@reddit
There's a load of interesting stuff around gem couriers too. You would be surprised how often they just have it in a pocket and get public transport.
somejaysoon@reddit
Inside job?
sshiverandshake@reddit
I've worked with and am close friends with people at her level, it takes years of experience.
For a Head Of Commercial role in particular, I simply don't believe anyone would have the commercial acumen, contract management, negotiation, etc. capabilities after spending 4 months as an Admin Manager, a year as an Executive Assistant and then a year as Head of On Trade. It just doesn't track.
EpochRaine@reddit
It does once you factor in nepotism.
theMooey23@reddit
Mate, she's the one doing sexual exploitation 🤣😅
AlreadyTakenUsrname1@reddit
For some reason I've been on a deep dive on his insta. I found no evidence of an affair but I 100% feel like he could be the type.
Common_Principle4003@reddit
Maybe she's just really adept in business skills.. like risk assessing!
Shot_Net3794@reddit
In this job, nobody even who is extremely impressive goes without a few years in grad job purgatory
Portas30k@reddit
Went to the right school, a middling university. Company owner doesn't share the same last name which is a surprise.
Enough_Response@reddit
and now nobody will touch her with a barge pole. She has guaranteed herself no future in that industry.
Portas30k@reddit
It was two years ago and she still looks to be working at the same place and same position.
Enough_Response@reddit
but she wont get hired any where else. In all likelihood its nepotism and the business is run by a relative.
AnonymousTimewaster@reddit
Rich people being held to account for their actions isnt incredibly common unfortunately, so I wouldn't hold your breath.
Enough_Response@reddit
you're wrong about this. Businesses very much care and any HR at another company will absolutely search her name on google.
ambadawn@reddit
Copium
BadgerBadgerer@reddit
Have you ever had an original thought?
JamesHowell89@reddit
Ah, the language of the terminally online.
YouGotTangoed@reddit
Sorry to say but she will not be getting my million pound eggs for sure. Count me out.
tannercolin@reddit
She is truly buggered now
MorningSquare5882@reddit
Yup, and she got her degree from a very dodgy-sounding private university. I'm sure the teaching was rigorous though, and they don't just give a certificate to anyone who can pay the fees...
Portas30k@reddit
Cardiff University? Very middling but certainly not private or dodgy sounding. Unless you mean her masters.
I love the fact that despite being at director level she still has Waitress at a Tapas bar and Duke of Edinburgh awards up on Linkedin.
MorningSquare5882@reddit
Ah, I don't have LinkedIn so I only saw the one qualification from "the university of law" or whatever it's called.
lemon0o@reddit
there is nothing dodgy about ulaw lol
MorningSquare5882@reddit
Well, 1. It's a for-profit University, which doesn't bode well; and 2. It's run by Global University Systems, who have a few dodgy stories and quasi-scandals to their name iirc.
lemon0o@reddit
ok cool. it's still not a dodgy university. many of the top law firms send their prospective trainees for the conversion/SQE conversion course, and it's basically also the standard recommendation for anyone looking to convert themselves
MorningSquare5882@reddit
I appreciate you taking the time to give me a better-informed perspective on this. I'm still side-eyeing because of the owners, but I'll admit I probably pre-judged it mainly on being a for-profit college. I appreciate that perhaps in specialised fields like law the norms might be different. Sorry you're getting down noted! Reddit is so survival-of-the-populist sometimes.
lemon0o@reddit
❤️
Jestar342@reddit
... of Whiskey and Cognac companies. She's not topping the FTSE100 ffs.
LoveBeBrave@reddit
This is obviously some kind of marketing or insurance scam.
paulmclaughlin@reddit
A moron.
Obviously it still isn't morally acceptable to rob morons.
ManageThoseFootballs@reddit
It's the most rich person thing ever to go down to the pub with a fucking Faberge egg in your bag.
DullFall9439@reddit
Sounds a little fishy though Inside job can claim she X on her and claims a little insurance and correct 💯 contacts to move the egg and watch on into cash and some rich billionaires collection
Jarcooler@reddit
Not sure if insurance feaud tracks, from the article: "Insurers paid out £106,700 for the loss" ... "Fabergé egg and watch set worth up to £2.2m"
Idk much about high end jewellery but 5% of value doesn't seem great.
No-Adverti@reddit
Who says it was the real one that was “stolen”
castlerigger@reddit
Everything, absolutely everything, is a conspiracy, of course.
idris_elbows@reddit
Hey, you dropped your tinfoil hat
Jarcooler@reddit
The CPS, insurers and the egg's owners 😅
deafened_commuter@reddit
Maybe favourable in tax? And it was "never found" so maybe they just gained £106,700 and kept the egg in secret for next generation to "find" it
nrsys@reddit
This was my first thought when I saw the article.
It noted that the bag was between her feet on the ground, and the thief saw an opportunity to grab it.
If I have anything of value I am watching it like a hawk.
If I have anything of significant value, I am not watching it at all, because I am not taking that into the pub at all, I am dropping it off at an appropriate safe location first - if that means going home and missing the chance to have a few drinks, then that's what it means, that is definitely preferable to having some drunk kick my bag - it doesn't even need to be stolen to ruin my day.
I do also feel delightfully sorry for the thief. As much as he is a complete asshole by default, grabbing a bag expecting a phone and maybe a laptop if he was lucky, and walking away with an unintended item of the sort of value you cannot even fence and will land you directly in jail is a bad day - hopefully he can get some help for his issues out of this (he is still a scummy thief though).
CrackersMcCheese@reddit
There’s not a chance this isn’t an inside job.
funusernam3@reddit
Why would the guy try and use her card after?
nouazecisinoua@reddit
The insurance company paid out £100k for the loss of a £2m egg plus various electronics etc. Not exactly an F off but I bet it felt like one to the employer.
Portas30k@reddit
Possibly means the £2million valuation is overinflated.
Jealous_Problem356@reddit
Not for a Fabergé.
Portas30k@reddit
Really, this is a modern one and the first few on their website look to be well under £100k
melinoya@reddit
Those are necklaces and charms. This is one of their objects d’art which still go for an awful lot despite being contemporary.
Portas30k@reddit
The point stands that if it was worth £2million and properly insured the payout would be £2 million. The payout is £100k after two years which either means it wasn't properly insured or it was worth £100k.
Dimac99@reddit
No, it means the insurer is only willing to pay a fraction of the value, almost certainly on the basis that the egg wasn't being properly protected at the time it was stolen. It's the same principle as leaving your door unlocked and your home insurance not paying the full amount as a result.
Portas30k@reddit
If that was the line the insurance company went down then why would they pay out a single penny? Are insurance companies famously generous with their pay outs? No.
Dimac99@reddit
The egg was poorly protected but not left unattended, so that might be a factor. And the thief has been caught and there's no suggestion from the actual professionals that the theft was anything other than an opportunistic bag snarching. Plus there's a possibility that it was underinsured because the premium for full resale value was unaffordable.
TotallyFineWithIt@reddit
Shouldn't they be half price now that Easter is finished?
IgamOg@reddit
Who no doubt still has the egg.
Ok_Cow_3431@reddit
If not A, then definitely B. Who the fuck goes to the pub with 2.2m worth of valuables in their bag and is inattentive enough to let this happen?
Anyone who employs the publicly named 'victim' ever again is beyond stupid
Ok-Blackberry-3534@reddit
I spent £2.2m on those jewels. You think I'm not going to show them off down the pub? Keep an eye on them while I take a whizz...
LewisMileyCyrus@reddit
"what the fucks a bag of jewels doing in a pub? Jesus, I need a drink"
and then they have to have one of our delicious home-made scrumpies
bigdogroundhere@reddit
No logo on the foam?
thxrpy@reddit
You’re drinking an advert mate
vic-vinegar_realty@reddit
Not to live quite so relentlessly in the real world but I believe it’s an organic scrumpy rather than home made
Usaname91@reddit
Probably lost it in the swan and paedo. Along with his clean shirts I’d bet
bigdogroundhere@reddit
No logo on the foam?
AirconGuyUK@reddit
'I bet you a pint I have a faberge egg in my handbag..'
You'd only need to win this bet 275,000 times to make your money back on the egg..
G_UK@reddit
Jeez, if I have my laptop in my bag in a pub, I’m watching it like a hawk 😆
HeyGuysHowWasJail@reddit
It would go with me to the bathroom
sshiverandshake@reddit
If I'd accidentally taken my jewel encrusted egg to the pub with me, I'd shove it up my arse, safest place.
aredditusername69@reddit
That's why I "accidentally" take mine with me all the time
thxrpy@reddit
I bet yours isn’t just encrusted with jewels then
Portas30k@reddit
Yeah no one's going up there.
ActionBirbie@reddit
Somebody who didn't count on junkie scum being allowed into the pub, I would say.
Own-Air-1301@reddit
Not counting on it is almost as stupid as carrying around that much money in the first place. Expect everything.
ActionBirbie@reddit
Yeah, something of a tactical error, it has to be said.
TheShakyHandsMan@reddit
If the local Junkies found it in my closet pub they’d swap it for a £20 bag of skag.
Nafepaints@reddit
If you read the article this is exactly what happened.
Enough_Response@reddit
She was outside the pub I believe with the bag between her legs. He came up behind and whipped it.
LambonaHam@reddit
Oh, that's mine. If you could just post it back that would be grand.
New-Process-52@reddit
Proper posh
namur17056@reddit
The same kind of people who leave incriminating/sensitive data on trains
Routine_Ad1823@reddit
The secret ingredient is booze
Routine_Ad1823@reddit
It's such a dodgy story. He just happened to nick that particular bag and the items have never been recovered. K bro.
Illustrious-Milk6518@reddit
How did he only get 2 years of a theft of that amount?
Rough_And_Ready@reddit
Maybe it's just me (and the lady in the news obviously) but I carry all of my Fabergé eggs with me when I go out on the lash.
NoMind5964@reddit
All in the same basket?
reggieko13@reddit
Sentence seems big in comparison to others.is fact that was so valuable a factor?it said it caused the victim stress yet they left it all alone
InformationOk3503@reddit
Why should the value be a factor though?
If he'd stolen a poor person's bag with all their possessions it's not less of a crime, and would have more of an impact on the victim.
Sentences should either be crime dependent and even or should be tailored to the dependent eg if fined then it's a % of wealth etc
BellendBuilder@reddit
Yeah mate.
Also he got done for fraud by false representation which can be a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Sirlacker@reddit
No.. she caused inconvenience and stress to herself and her company by having multi-million pound items in her bag at THE PUB.
Absolutely fuck all reason to be having that in her bag. Well two reasons, she's thick as shit and wanted to show it off. Or it was an inside job that went wrong. Wrong thief maybe for an insurance fraud job?
RobertTheSpruce@reddit
Look, if I want to have a pint of Carling with my bag of Faberge Eggs, who are you to judge?
Dissidant@reddit
Someone making a really, really poor attempt to defraud their insurer
dantemortemalizar@reddit
I’m betting she got the job because her family is rich and pulls strings. She is so used to having daddy replace things she’s lost, damaged, or had stolen she doesn’t take care of things. Anyone who takes a priceless irreplaceable object that doesn’t belong to them and doesn’t immediately take it directly to a secure place with all possible caution is an idiot. I hope they get prosecuted.
TomatoChomper7@reddit
An insain person, clearly.
Express-Associate-12@reddit
There is no smoking area at The Dog & Duck everyone just packs onto the pavement. She was stood in the street with her bag on the ground…
Markies_Myth@reddit
Yeah I wondered about that. Imagine being that thick and still getting so many recently paid job opportunities.
DullFall9439@reddit
Well, insurance pays out less than 10% of the egg and the value of the watch is not recovered.
This is enough to retire on
If he's clever he will do his time and have them in a safe place to collect after release.
But I do wonder 🤔 if they were ever in her bag before he stole it.
Or if this is maybe an insurance job
Because who takes that much to a pub and leaves it in a high-value bag which would be worth a few quid alone as an empty bag.
It would be hard to sell but I guess there are plenty who would buy it if they had the contacts
Which would usually be the diamond capital of Europe Antwerp, Belgium
where most stolen valuables go and disappear into cash.
Many of which are already on a list for pro thieves contracted to to steal
Opportunist thief basically found a steal of a lifetime enough to retire off if taken to the right person.
Or a corrupt worker or business just claimed that these items got stolen to claim insurance.
Then resell them on since they do seem to have the exact contacts that enabled them to make such valuable items disappear.
Careless-Giraffe-623@reddit
There's something not quite adding up with this story lol!
Gotta be some funny business /insurance job..
Bob_Leves@reddit
Doubt it. "Opportunist addict nicks unsecured bag" is hardly a rare occurrence. Unfortunately.
Careless-Giraffe-623@reddit
Who takes a 2 million quid antique to the boozer? Lol!
Nah I'm calling foul play here, some kind of hair brained attempted insurance scam or something.
Frostyballschilly@reddit
Even if I take my laptop bag to the pub I have the strap round my leg if I’m standing or sitting down. One time I was chatting to a mate next to me and felt a pull on my leg. The guy next to me was trying to move my bag over to him using his foot, he didn’t see the bag strap attached to me. Tried to claim he had a similar looking bag. Took some photos of him and told security on the door. Guy ran like hell.
Unusual-Art2288@reddit
Plus someone nicks £2 million in jewels and gets a short sentence.
Mustardly@reddit
He probably didn't expect to find that inside
littletorreira@reddit
Probably flogged it for £100 max.
Jealous_Problem356@reddit
He probably had absolutely no clue what it was! Actually, what am I saying? He definitely didn't have a clue what any of it was not even the bag, all handed over for a couple of crappy rocks!
CrackersMcCheese@reddit
Likely threw it away.
Mustardly@reddit
A Faberge egg being worth millions os crazy - especially when you see the thing. If you don't know about them then it would just look like some weird egg thing. Which is what it is.
If I didn't know what the egg thing was I would throw it out as well lol
BellendBuilder@reddit
I know someone who braided the NHS for millions and only got 3. The papers massively under reported how much they actually stole.
Enough_Response@reddit
normally nicking a handbag would get 100 hours community service so 2 years isnt bad considering.
fragmnt@reddit
It does all sounds a little ‘insurance fraud-y’.
BellendBuilder@reddit
You’d hope not. £2m egg and only a £106,700 payout 😅
Conscious-Ball8373@reddit
Yes, but if it's an insurance fraud then they still have the egg somewhere.
Deep_Banana_6521@reddit
insurance fraud.
"yes, my purse contained my purse, £40 cash, some mints, my phone charger......a £2m faberge egg......and a few hankies"
ben_jamin_h@reddit
Damn, now they've caught him, will they still get the insurance money?
Enough_Response@reddit
items havent been recovered so yes they get small insurance payout
Gisschace@reddit
My guess is that the owner is from somewhere like Dubai where having this much jewellery on you is more normal and you tend to go to bars in places like hotels where there is security on the door
Sin_nombre__@reddit
Also, even if I did do that, which I wouldn't. I wouldn't be talking to the papers about it.
GeggingIn@reddit
Your Faberge egg pinched whilst having a fag.
How the other half live.
TamT18@reddit
Inside job 😁
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