| Fadley Faisal |

AN EMPLOYEE of a jewellery shop was sentenced to eight months’ jail by the Magistrate’s Court yesterday after she pleaded guilty to stealing a gold necklace from the company.

DPP Affyian bin Abdul Rahman revealed in court that 35-year-old Millie Ann Silva Geronimo from the Philippines was posted at the jeweller’s branch at The Mall, Gadong when she stole the gold necklace from a cabinet at 1pm on March 20.

She had lied to her colleagues that she was going to take a photo of the gold necklace and send it to the jeweller’s office to be shown to a customer who was going to pick up the necklace.

Instead, the defendant sought a friend’s help to pawn the necklace – worth BND4,300 – at a jewellery shop in the capital. She remitted the BND2,500 received from the transaction back home to her family to settle her children’s school fees. Her manager discovered her crime after noticing that the necklace was missing and certain documents were missing from the supposed sale of the jewellery.

The manager then confronted the defendant who subsequently admitted to her wrongdoing.