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Nestled on a quiet north London street, two of the city’s notorious pickpockets were hiding in plain sight.

Every morning, Elena Venkova and Elena Mitkova, 34 and 26 respectively, would buy a Redbull from their local corner shop in Edmonton before spending hours in central London ‘doing god knows what’.

‘They even tried to steal from me once,’ the shopkeeper told Metro. ‘But I caught them in the act and they never tried me again.’

But on Oxford Street, the pair, along with friend Malinka Georgieva, stole a woman’s handbag worth £1,000 in August.

And just two years ago, Georgieva pleaded guilty to theft and was given a nine-month suspended sentence, the Crown Prosecut

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