Man charged with stealing diamond worth more than £500,000 from Westminster home

A man has been charged with stealing a diamond worth more than half a million pounds from a home in central London.

Justinas Ivaskivicius 34, of Fallowfield, Cambridge, is accused of taking the rock worth £515,000 from a house in Westminster at some point between December 12 and 15, 2017.

He also faces two counts of possessing criminal property after being found with a “quantity of cash”, Scotland Yard said.

Detectives from Met Police’s Flying Squad arrested Ivaskivicius at an address in Chesterton, Cambridge on Wednesday.

He will appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday via video link to face the charges.