Caught on camera, the Romanian thief who distracts shop assistant before putting £54,000 of jewellery down her SKIRT

This is the moment a brazen jewellery thief distracted a shop assistant before reaching over a counter and tipping a £54,000 tray of bangles into a secret pocket in her skirt.

Mother-of-four Saina Sava was a member of a gang of shoplifters who were caught on camera sending an assistant away from the counter while she shamelessly removed an entire tray of jewellery.

The CCTV footage was shot inside Sunny Jewellers in Leicester. At one point, one of the women even opened her headscarf wide to help hide her accomplice as she hid the bangles in the specially-made skirt pocket.