A JUDGE has expressed his concern at the growing number of robberies on Asian women for their gold jewellery after an Oldbury victim had her £2,000 necklace snatched as she waited for a bus.
The woman had been worshipping at a temple and was in Dudley Road East when 18-year-old Theo Josephs pounced and grabbed the necklace which broke as he pulled it from around her neck.
The teenager then drove away but he was arrested after Candice Morton, also aged 18, sold the necklace for just £280 to a shop in Birmingham's Jewellery quarter.
Judge John Wait said it was clear robberies on Asian women for their gold were becoming "prevalent" since the price of the precious metal had rocketed in recent months.
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