Robbers take jewels worth £28,000 in Shropshire raid

Monday 14th February 2011, 7:00PM GMT.

The space where the £19,000 ring was mounted

Two robbers fled with £28,000 of jewels after a dramatic daytime raid at a Shropshire jewellers.

A customer chased the robber and his accomplice after he snatched the two rings out of the hands of the member of staff at Shrewsbury’s Fabricius Green Fine Jewels at 11.15am on Friday.

One of the missing rings

Peter Green, co-owner of the independent family jewellers on High Street, said the shop was very busy when a man wearing a hooded top with the hood up asked to see two rings, one valued at £20,000 and a second worth £8,000.

He snatched them out of her hands and ran out of the shop as his accomplice, who was waiting outside, opened the door for him.

They both fled up Fish Street.

It comes just five months after a gang stole £16,000 worth of jewels from the shop after forcing their way into cabinets.

One of the rings taken in the raid

Mr Green said: “One man grabbed the jewellery out of the hands of the sales assistant. She was suspicious of the value of the goods so had deliberately not handed them to the person.

“A customer gave chase but they were very fast,” he added.

Two men, one in his late teens and another in his 20s, and a woman in her 30s were arrested in the Castlefields area after the raid.

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