Jail for Bulgarian pickpocket gang

Three professional Bulgarian pickpockets caught by undercover police officers after they stole a £1,000 designer purse from a woman outside Selfridges have been jailed. Elena Venkova, 33, Malinka Georgieva, 20, and Elena Mitkova, 26, targeted shoppers in London’s West End on August 27. Footage shared on social media shows dark-haired Mitkova in handcuffs as a plain-clothed officer relays details of the arrests on his police radio. Georgieva appears to be lying on the pavement suffering a seizure following her arrest…