Diamond Robbery By Fake Forensic Officers

Published on 24/05/10

CCTV footage of robbers dressed as police forensics officers stealing diamond jewellery from a Lincoln shop has been released by police.
The footage shows one of the masked men threaten a staff member with a hammer at James Usher & Son in Guildhall Street in the raid on Saturday morning.
Managing director James Frampton said about £80,000 of jewels were stolen and security is now being reviewed.
The robbers escaped in a car later found abandoned and on fire.
The green Vauxhall Astra was set alight in Lindum Terrace.