Reward totalling £1.5 million on offer

[rubbershoes]

Huang, who has more than 13,000 Instagram followers, often shares snaps of her luxurious lifestyle, travelling by private jet, yachting in Hong Kong, skiing in Aspen, and visiting the Middle East on holiday.

I'm no expert, but 13,000 doesn't seem like many followers.

She's a wannabe influencer

 

[MickiQ]

How many handbags is £150k's worth? Surely it can't be just 1?
Why would anyone keep £15k in cash at home in this day and age, did they acquire this wealth by dealing drugs?

 

[Spymaster]

Huang, who has more than 13,000 Instagram followers, often shares snaps of her luxurious lifestyle, travelling by private jet, yachting in Hong Kong, skiing in Aspen, and visiting the Middle East on holiday.

It is as yet unknown if the burglary was targeted, but several of the items that were stolen have featured on Ms Huang's Instagram profile.

Some of the stolen items had previously been featured on her social media, including diamond bracelets, a ring, and a distinctive handbag shaped like a face with an arm strap.


So she shared photos of her jewelry on Instagram and posted about when she was out of town?

I retract what I said about nobody being dumb enough to leave 10 million quids worth of Tom lying around!

 

[magneze]

10 bob, who would give ten bob for a child's first handbag?
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I assumed that this was a joke post, but no this is an actual £150k handbag. FFS. We're all doomed.

 

[DotCommunist]

I assumed that this was a joke post, but no this is an actual £150k handbag. FFS. We're all doomed.

except the bloke who nicked it, he'll be OK.

 

[magneze]

except the bloke who nicked it, he'll be OK.

Not unless the handbag can be used as a flotation device.

Which is what I'd want for that kind of money.

Maybe it's the size of a house?

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Be interesting to know wether it contains aldi receipts bus tickets and 8 lambert n butler

 

[JimW]

Can never get over the fact that kids starve and the planet's dying so cunts can live like that.

 

[Gromit]

I'm no expert, but 13,000 doesn't seem like many followers.

She's a wannabe influencer

She is unemployed. Doesn't have a job.

When you're poor and unemployed they call you 'benefits scrounger'.
When you're rich they call by your hobbies. Going on insta and collecting art.

 

[hash tag]

Be interesting to know wether it contains aldi receipts bus tickets and 8 lambert n butler

Nah. It'll be roll ups in there.

 

[Lotte]

The Police have likely told them that karma will catch up with them, and that they need not bother catching them as indeed karma will punish them. Farage has said there should be a full investigation into the robbery in case its an immigrant.

"Phew," said the burglars, "for a minute there, we lost ourselves."

 

[Louis MacNeice]

They keep the really valuable stuff in the bank.

On a totally separate issue, relevant only because expensive jewellery, did anyone listen to GF Newman's The Corrupted on the radio?

BBC Radio 4 - GF Newman's The Corrupted - The Corrupted - Series 2

The Corrupted plots the course of a criminal family.

www.bbc.co.uk

Yep and really enjoyed it, especially as it takes ages to unwind through all its twists and turn.

Cheers for the reminder - Louis MacNeice

 

[editor]

There are two rewards on offer for the return of jewellery and handbags.
The beginning of the article says the homeowners have offered £500,000 and later on it says they are also offering 10%. If anyone knows anything, please pm me and I'll be happy to pass the information on.

BBC News - Jewellery worth £10m stolen from north London home

Jewellery worth £10m stolen from home in St John's Wood in London

The stolen items include two De Beers butterfly diamond rings and a Van Cleef diamond necklace.

www.bbc.com

Wonder how you recognise an 'unknown weapon'?

Det Con Paulo Roberts said many of the missing items were unique in their design, and therefore easily identifiable.

He said: "This is a brazen offence, where the suspect has entered the property while armed with an unknown weapon and violated the sanctuary of the victims' home.

 

[Spymaster]

Here's Shafira; apparently in an Elsa Schiaparelli dress.

Elsa needs to have a serious word with herself too.

 

[Saul Goodman]

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Here's Shafira; apparently in an Elsa Schiaparelli dress.

Elsa needs to have a serious word with herself too.

I suppose it's good to have people to point at and laugh, but I'd much prefer if people like this didn't exist.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I suppose it's good to have people to point at and laugh, but I'd much prefer if people like this didn't exist.

The two positions are not mutually exclusive.

 

[JimW]

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Here's Shafira; apparently in an Elsa Schiaparelli dress.

Elsa needs to have a serious word with herself too.

Wouldn't have to worry about falling in the pool drunk.

 

[Saul Goodman]

The two positions are not mutually exclusive.

I suppose we could point and laugh at them as they were publicly executed.

 

[furluxor]

Like everyone else, I share in schadenfreude and pass negative judgement on the (former) owner's taste, morality and just general usefulness as a person.

the whole thing is disgusting but also ha ha

 

[scalyboy]

If someone owns jewellery genuinely worth £10m they are foolish to keep it at home; far better to have it looked after by a reputable depository like the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company ... oh.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

I'm no expert, but 13,000 doesn't seem like many followers.

She's a wannabe influencer

That’s exactly what this non story is.

 

[pbsmooth]

Certainly someone else providing the money. Parents or husband I guess. Flauting wealth on instagram is certainly a way criminals are identifying targets. Seems fair enough in this instance - nobody home so no issue!

 

[gosub]

“Victim” is Shafira Huang.

Apparently an influencer.

Nope. Me neither.

Inconceivable that they'd leave this stuff around in the house and not in a safe vault.

Lucky burglar. Generally I'm of the opinion that home burglars are the scum of the earth but this one obviously knew how to target both immense wealth and immense stupidity so good on em

Dinners with Sarah Furgerson...

 

[scalyboy]

If someone owns jewellery genuinely worth £10m they are foolish to keep it at home; far better to have it looked after by a reputable depository like the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company ... oh.

Before the rozzers nabbed him, I was hoping the gang’s elusive ‘Basil the Ghost’ electronics whizz would turn out to be a Finsbury Park squirrel - quick-thinking, living on their wits, nimble claws adept at manipulating delicate circuitry...

Pictured him living safely up a tree surrrounded by priceless tom, and chittering “I’m the guvnor now!”

See also: that time when Coleen Rooney flung Wayne’s diamond-encrusted engagement ring into the Liverpool red squirrel sanctuary, disgusted at reading of his latest granny-groping antics in the tabloids.

A lot of amateur metal-detectorists pitched up but failed to locate said ringpiece. I’ll wager it’s still embedded in a tree hole drey, pride of Mr & Mrs Tufty D. Squirrell.
Or a magpie’s nest.

 

[LakieLady]

If I was having lavish lifestyle dinners with Fergie I’m not sure I’d be flaunting it

Intriguing there’s a Prince Andrew connection though

Indeed it is. Isn't he a bit hard up at the moment?

 

[MickiQ]

Indeed it is. Isn't he a bit hard up at the moment?

Suspect there straightaway then

 

[Spymaster]

Suspect there straightaway then

He would've fucked it up.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Sasaferrato will be along soon to explain groats to you.

Didn't people pay with pebbles and sticks before decimal money was invented?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Didn't people pay with pebbles and sticks before decimal money was invented?

Nope, LSD, mate.

 

[PTK]

LOL. Not so much about the drama as the goss: I was fascinated by how close to the wind it sailed with stuff that would have been libellous if people weren't dead.

The problem with that series is that it got wrong more than few of the facts of modern history. Off the top of my heead, I think it confused the 1972 and 1974 miner's strikes.