Couple Charged With Nicking £73K Of Stock From Boots Sentenced

Sentenced: Edem & Elizabeth Boni

A couple charged with stealing thousands of pounds worth of expensive beauty products from the Boots store where they worked have finally been sentenced.

They were said to have helped themselves to approximately £73,000 worth of cosmetics, perfume and aftershave from the large branch in Westfield Shopping Centre, Shepherd's Bush.

Both Edem Kofi Boni, 36, and Elizabeth Exonam Akosua Boni, 34, both of Tidworth House, Dog Kennel Hill Estate, Dulwich have now received suspended prison sentences.

Yesterday at Isleworth Crown Court Elizabeth received four months imprisonment, suspended for six months.

Edem had previously received a twenty-four month prison sentence, plus 240 hours community service work and was ordered to obey a curfew for three months, monitored by an electronic ankle tag.

Both were originally charged with theft by employee, namely stealing the beauty products between August 9, 2010 and November 19, 2012.

Elizabeth was also charged with fraud by false representation, namely dishonestly completing false documentation to a bank for a business loan purporting she was in full-time employment on August 23, 2011.