Woman ‘stole diamonds worth £4.2m by swapping them for pebbles’

Court told Lulu Lakatos posed as gem expert to steal seven diamonds from Boodles in Mayfair, London

A woman stole diamonds worth 4.2m from a luxury London jewellers' by posing as a gem expert and swapping them for garden pebbles in a highly sophisticated heist, a court has heard.

Lulu Lakatos allegedly posed as a gemologist and pretended to examine and value seven diamonds at the Boodles showroom on New Bond Street in Mayfair, central London.