It was until this week largely unknown how Conticello, a garden variety pickpocket, found himself in possession of the priceless Fabergé egg on the night of November 7, 2024.
Rosie Dawson, director of premium bands at Craft Irish Whiskey, was targeted by Algerian drug addict Enzo Conticello, 29, as she greeted a friend outside the Dog and Duck pub in Bateman Street.
The first Imperial egg that Faberge created was commissioned by Russian emperor, Tsar Alexander III in 1885, as an Easter present for his wife, Tsarina Maria Feodorovna, sister of Queen Alexandra.