Diamonds are a man’s best friend
A man was was arrested for attempted theft and taken to hospital for a dose of laxatives after swallowing a diamond worth more than £8,000 at a gem exhibition in Sri Lanka.
The 32-year-old Chinese suspect had asked the stall owner for a close inspection of the diamond on the opening day of Facets Sri Lanka, an annual jewellery show in the capital Colombo.
‘He had taken the diamond out of a display cabinet and appeared to be appraising it and suddenly put it in his mouth,’ said a police officer at the scene, who declined to be named.
‘The owner saw this and alerted us,’ he said, adding that the man was arrested and taken to Colombo National Hospital to be given laxatives.
Now it can be made into a ring after it already passed through one.
