A £5,000 laptop computer was stolen by raiders who broke into a sales rep's car while she attended a meeting at the Edgwarebury Hotel in Barnet Lane, Elstree, on Thursday. Thieves smashed their way through a window in the woman's BMW car after spotting the grey Toshiba computer in a black case.

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