Bulgarian phone thief was ‘corona refugee’

A Bulgarian thief who claimed she fled to Britain to escape the coronavirus has been jailed for two months. Evdokiya Ilieva, 33, claimed she headed to London fearing her country was about to follow Italy’s lockdown. She grabbed a phone worth £864 swiped an expensive Huawei handset from tourist Britannai Tan in Charing Cross Road in London’s West End yesterday (15). Ilieva appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today (Mon) wearing a black fur coat and blue jeans. She spoke only…

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