Burglar who stole £10m worth of jewellery from London mansion broke in through bathroom window
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Police say ‘lone wolf’ in one of Britain’s biggest burglaries escaped with his haul in a rucksack on his back. The burglar who stole £10m worth of jewellery in one of Britain’s biggest ever heists broke into a London mansion through a bathroom window and escaped with his haul in a rucksack on his back.
Police are hunting for the suspect, described as a “lone wolf”, after the theft in Avenue Road, north London, just after 5pm on 7 December. The burglar is understood to have first tried a rear window backing on to the luxury home’s garden, then clambered on to a roof, came back down and then successfully entered through a window at the side of the second floor.
The home, comprising five floors and 22,000 sq feet, is registered in the name of Shafira Huang, a social media influencer. A neighbouring home to the burgled mansion was staging viewings about the time of the theft and is on the market for £59.5m. One line of inquiry is whether those behind the burglary pretended to be a buyer to gain intelligence on the property they were targeting.
The layout and size of the house for sale is similar, and it may have provided a chance to gain intelligence on the Huang home, such as whether windows were open. Csaba Virag, a representative of the family, said the burglar had forced open the closed sash bathroom window, and then clambered on to a bathroom sink, to get into the property. At some point, the burglar when trying to get into the mansion may have used a ladder from a nearby property.
