These pictures show a British couple in handcuffs being led into a Turkish police station after they sneaked into a hotel and stole a woman’s bag and then used her credit card to go on a spending spree.
Video footage shows the British couple on a sun lounger after sneaking into the posh hotel in the Turkish city of Marmaris.
When another hotel guest went to the hotel restaurant – they snatched her bag and made a speedy exit.
The unsuspecting woman had no idea her bag had been stolen until she got a notification on her telephone that TRY 28,000 (GBP 829) and withdrawn from her account.
The police discovered the theft of the bag using the hotel’s CCTV cameras.
Detectives then spent hours studying street footage around the city to track the progress of the pair and eventually located them at their hotel in the Armutalan District of the city only a few hours after the theft.
Police said that the British man aged 34, identified by his initials BD, had been released on bail after being interviewed at the police station, but the British woman aged 32, whose initials are KLI, was being kept in custody, according to local media.
The stolen property was also recovered in the British couple’s hotel room and returned to the victim.
