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fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 days agoPair guilty of 1.38 million jewellery shop robbery linked to manager's suicide
Two men convicted of conspiring to rob a Richmond jewellery shop after a raid that led the shop manager to take his own life.
The location, they suggest, would have been of secondary concern to the criminals. Experts who observe trends in international art crime, however, see Sunday morning's heist at the Louvre as something more prosaic: the latest in a series of smash-and-grab thefts focused more on the material value of precious stones or metals than the artifacts' significance, continuing a pattern that has emerged over the last decade in Germany, Britain and the US.