Monday, December 16, 2019

Bernie Ecclestone Says 'Inside Job' Behind £50m Jewellery Theft

From the Daily Mail, Dec. 16:

'It was an INSIDE JOB': F1 legend Bernie Ecclestone hints crooks behind £50m jewellery raid on daughter Tamara's £70m London mansion may have had crucial tip off - as she shares religious Instagram post from Lapland holiday
  • EXCLUSIVE: Bernie Ecclestone fears daughter Tamara was betrayed by insider 
  • Three thieves raided Tamara Ecclestone's guarded Kensington home on Friday 
  • Entered via the back garden, smashed open safes and left through open window 
  • Security guard was at work at house on street with checkpoints and 24/7 patrols 
  • No arrests have been made and Met Police are today appealing for witnesses 
  • Tamara, Jay and daughter Sophia flew to Lapland for Xmas break hours before
Bernie Ecclestone believes the theft of his daughter Tamara's entire £50million jewellery collection from her high security Billionaires' Row mansion was an inside job, MailOnline can reveal today.
The former F1 supremo fears his eldest child has been betrayed after three burglars were able to spend 50 minutes emptying safes in her 57-room £70million west London home and fled through an open window on Friday night. 

The gang got away despite a guard reportedly sitting in Tamara's CCTV room at the property on Kensington Palace Gardens, which boasts 24-hour security patrols, multiple checkpoints and armed police at either end to protect the six embassies there. 

Tamara, her husband Jay and daughter Sophia had just boarded a private jet for Lapland with her 89-year-old tycoon father suggesting the timing of the raid hours later could be no coincidence. ...