Pictured: Jewellery thief who stole from stores across the West Midlands by asking to see items then running
This is the face of a jewellery thief who stole from stores across the Black Country, taking more than £16,000 in goods in unsophisticated fashion.
Nick Dosanjh carried out his first theft on January 18 this year when he visited a jewellers in West Bromwich and asked staff if he could have a look at a gold chain from a display cabinet. The staff member handed the chain over to him but Dosanjh ran from the store.
On the same day he used similar tactics at a jewellers in Birmingham, again fleeing with a gold chain, and went on to commit similar offences in Wolverhampton, Brierley Hill, Smethwick, Walsall, Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield.
He was arrested in Oldbury when stopped by traffic officers on May 19 after driving a Volkswagen Golf without a licence and insurance.
At Wolverhampton Crown Court on June 28 the 33-year-old, of Greenhill Road, Handsworth Wood was jailed for two years for the thefts, which he had earlier admitted, and fined £300 for the driving offences.
Sergeant Paul Bishop said: “Dosanjh was charged with nine shop theft offences with eight of them relating to jewellery shops.
“He was a brazen thief that used the same tactics for each of his offences. But due to good CCTV footage we were able to link Dosanjh to his crime spree across the West Midlands.”
For advice on how to keep your business safe, visit https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/cp/crime-prevention/keeping-business-safe-from-crime/.
