Andrei Dumittru-Cristian, left, and Oana-Raluca Nica TWO Romanian thieves who targeted an elderly couple and stole their life savings in a busy shopping centre have been jailed. Andrei Dumittru-Cristian and his partner Oana-Raluca Nica followed their victims after they had just withdrawn thousands in cash from a counter at Barclays Bank in Cwmbran. They distracted the couple, who are in their 70s, when they were in Home Bargains in Gwent Square before stealing £5,000 from the woman’s handbag. The police caught the thieves the next day as they tried to flee the country by boarding a ferry at Dover. Prosecutor Christopher Evans told Cardiff Crown Court how Dumittru-Cristian was also being sentenced for a similar crime he committed on a 91-year-old woman in Darlington.
Andrei Dumittru-Cristian, left, and Oana-Raluca Nica TWO Romanian thieves who targeted an elderly couple and stole their life savings in a busy shopping centre have been jailed. Andrei Dumittru-Cristian and his partner Oana-Raluca Nica followed their victims after they had just withdrawn thousands in cash from a counter at Barclays Bank in Cwmbran. They distracted the couple, who are in their 70s, when they were in Home Bargains in Gwent Square before stealing £5,000 from the woman’s handbag. The police caught the thieves the next day as they tried to flee the country by boarding a ferry at Dover. Prosecutor Christopher Evans told Cardiff Crown Court how Dumittru-Cristian was also being sentenced for a similar crime he committed on a 91-year-old woman in Darlington.