![]() The prosecutor added: 'The items are not recoverable as Rova gave them to her partner. The person listed as her partner does not show up on police indices. 'She relates how unsafe she now feels as she states that this person not only stole from us, they opened our suitcase, which is the biggest invasion of privacy you can imagine.' Ms Matthews read a victim impact statement from Gracia Matata, who was staying with her mother at the Other House apartments. She said 'I'm sorry' when she admitted burglary and fraud at the Park Lane Hilton, (pictured) including taking £187,000 of jewellery, last November ![]() Rova wept uncontrollably today as she was jailed for more than five years. 'This is a spate of a targeted series of burglaries at high-end hotels. The Crown is clear that this is part of a wider group of targeted organised offenders.' You did that in order to fill it with the items you stole which we can see on CCTV.'Īlex Matthews, prosecuting, had said the cleaner was working for an 'organised crime group' when she carried out the thefts. 'On occasion you equipped yourself for burglary for instance, the empty belt bag you entered the Hilton Hotel guest room with. 'I have no doubt you targeted those hotels because you thought the guests' rooms were more likely to contain valuable items. You left after each offence never to return, and I find you were enthusiastic and a repeated participant in an organised burglary scheme. In reality there is little to distinguish for each of these hotel burglaries in terms of your actions. ![]() 'You abused your role as an employed cleaner of each of those hotels, a role you had cynically secured on each occasion to perpetrate your crimes. She stole £365,000 worth of jewellery from wealthy tourists while working for an organised crime gang Sabrina Rova, 23, (pictured) from Romania, worked at the Park Lane Hilton. You shattered that sanctuary for your victims. Judge Nicholas Rimmer said: 'A person's hotel room ought to be their home from home and as such their sanctuary of peace. Wearing a yellow top and grey scarf, she cried as she was jailed for a total of five years and eight months at Southwark Crown Court. She wept again when she returned to court to admit two more burglaries, one of jewellery and watches worth £179,000, and a further count of fraud. Rova had sobbed in court and said 'I'm sorry' when she admitted burglary and fraud at the Hilton, including taking £187,000 of jewellery, last November. She claimed she gave some of the stolen gems to her partner, but police have been unable to trace him. ![]() The mother-of-two was able to access guests' rooms in hotels and grab valuable items in July and September last year. Romanian national Sabrina Rova, 23, stole items including a Cartier watch, a pair of Cartier earrings worth more than £22,000, a Rolex Oyster watch worth £17,000 and Dior pearl earrings, and swiped credit cards for shopping sprees from guests staying at the Park Lane Hilton near Buckingham Palace. A cleaner at a five-star hotel in London's Park Lane who stole £365,000 worth of jewellery from wealthy tourists while working for an organised crime gang wept uncontrollably today as she was jailed for more than five years. ![]()
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