London caterers rejoice. It appears greed has been the downfall of Raffles the gentleman thief.
If you remember, last month Kitchen Rat brought you the breaking news that a gentleman thief had broken into contract caterer Vacherin's London office at Bedford Row.
The gentleman thief ignored the techy stuff like computers and instead stole four suits, 12 laundered shirts (leaving the one that had been worn), two pairs of shoes and a quantity of ties instead (director of business development Phil Roker is a keen cyclist).
However the scoundrel's taste for the finer things in life was apparently unquenched and he made a decision that will haunt him to the end of his days: Namely, to return to the scene of the crime.
Yes weeks after the original misdeed Roker had the indignity of losing ten recently replaced shirts (still in their packets), some more shoes, further booze (to celebrate another successful job) and some rather splendid cufflinks.
Raffles also swiped Vacherin managing director Mark Philpott's fine pen.
But having broken the first rule of gentleman thievery in going back, the light-fingered one then injured himself breaking back in. Clumsy.
On investigating the boys in blue found the smell of a fine cologne in the air and more importantly a trace of blood, which has lead to an arrest (there aren't that many gentleman thieves left in the capital these days after all).
But is this the end of Raffles and his reign of terror?
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