Overview

• Gabor-Tamas Szilágyi received a two-year prison term suspended for two years for stealing jewellery from an elderly client.
• He must complete 20 rehabilitation days and 250 hours of unpaid work under his community order.
• Recorder Kevin Slack cited Szilágyi’s financial strain linked to impending fatherhood and his clean record in favouring a rehabilitative sentence.
• Police stopped Szilágyi’s van on the M55 and recovered £10,000 of gold, diamond and emerald jewellery, which has been returned to Mrs Stansfield.
• In court, Mrs Stansfield said she remains fearful and anxious in her home despite recovering her late husband’s keepsakes.