Gardaí investigating theft of valuable rings from pensioner who was transporting them for a jeweller on bus
Gardaí are investigating the reported theft of a woman’s rings worth €35,000 on a Dublin Bus after a city centre jeweller enlisted an elderly man to transport the expensive jewellery to a cleaning specialist elsewhere in the capital.
On May 8, the woman dropped four rings worth €35,000 into a Dublin city jeweller to be cleaned. The high-end jewellery included her wedding and engagement rings as well as two other items which also contained rare stones.
The woman received a call the next day from the jeweller stating that her rings had been stolen on board a Dublin bus. She was informed a pensioner, later identified on CCTV, had used the bus to transport her jewellery to another premises in the city to be cleaned by a specialist. The robbery took place on the pensioner’s return journey.
The owner of the jewellery is understood to have had “no idea” her rings were to leave the premises she entrusted her goods to in order to be…
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