A TRAVELLING diamond dealer was robbed of £100,000-worth of jewellery in a dramatic heist in a hotel car park yesterday.
The Jewish trader was ambushed by two thugs as he walked to his motor after leaving the building at about 7.15am.
One man pounced on him from behind and beat him to the ground while the other thief used a beer keg to smash the window of his Ford vehicle. The pair nabbed a bag containing his jewellery and fled from the Orchard Park Hotel in Giffnock, near Glasgow, in a dark car.
The 55-year-old dealer, thought to be from London, was last night named locally as a Mr Rosenstein.
A spokesman for Strathclyde Police said: “The jewellery salesman was walking to his car when he was approached by two men who forced him to the ground and stole his bag.
“It contained jewellery worth a six-figure sum.”
The Orchard was once a maternity home — and was where Prime Minister Gordon Brown was born.
The hotel — in an area that’s home to Scotland’s largest Jewish population — is known to be popular with travelling businessmen.
Yesterday as cops scoured the car park for evidence, the beer keg lay abandoned nearby.
A Newcastle-registered Ford’s passenger window was smashed. The area is extensively covered by CCTV.
Both suspects are white males, aged 45-55, 5ft 11in, and of a medium build. One wore a cream jacket.
Police said inquiries were ongoing last night and appealed for information.
