Two suspected shoplifters have appeared in court accused of stealing more than £1,000 of make-up from just one shop in Bluewater.

The pair are accused of swiping the cosmetics from Boots along with almost £1,000 of clothes from another store at the Greenhithe shopping centre.

Police were called at around 2.40pm on Friday, April 16, following a report a man and a woman had been found with of a haul of suspected stolen property.

They were both arrested and taken into custody. Officers also seized a metal security tag remover.

Roxana Constantinescu and Constantin-robert Sogirdea, both of Solent Road, Worcester, Worcestershire, were later charged with theft of cosmetics from Boots the Chemist, valued at £1,333.57, and theft of clothing from House of Fraser worth £988.

Constantinescu, 26, and Sogirdea, 33, appeared before Medway Magistrates’ Court where they were bailed to a hearing at Sevenoaks Magistrates’ Court on May 13.

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