Woman faces jail for theft of £760 designer perfume

 
Paul Cheston14 August 2013

A Warehouse worker faces prison for stealing a £760 bottle of designer perfume bound for duty free shoppers at Heathrow.

Hasmik Blaszcyk, 35, right, was trapped when the bottle — part of a limited edition of 500 — was found by police at her home.

She had taken the Swarovski Aura Prestige Edition scent from a facility supplying stores in Terminal 3.

The number stamped on the crystal container found by officers matched the empty box she had left behind. Armenian-born Blaszcyk had tried to blame a workmate by claiming she had received the fragrance only after it had been stolen.

But she was convicted of theft by an Old Bailey jury and will be sentenced by Judge Stephen Kramer QC on September 10.

He told her: “I make it clear that this is a very serious offence and all sentencing options will be open to me.”

Blaszcyk, of Hayes, had been working at the World Duty Free bonded warehouse in Runnymede since May 2010 and took the scent last summer.

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