A woman from the infamous 'Rolex Rippers' gang tried to nab a £10,000 watch from a man near a Cheshire golf club. Stefania Tinica is the first member of the group, behind dozens of distraction thefts of men's designer watches across the country, to be convicted.
In one of the incidents on January 3 last year, which happened by Alderley Edge Golf Club, the 40-year-old Romanian national and an accomplice approached victim Simon Kelly and tried to take his Rolex Submariner watch, worth £10,000. But he managed to break free and pushed one of the pair away before they fled, WalesOnline reports.
Police recovered DNA from Mr Kelly's wrist and managed to identify Tinica as the assailant, but they were unable to trace her. On May 30 she struck for a second time 250 miles away in Bingham Avenue, near to the exclusive Parkstone Golf Club in Poole, Dorset.
