A luxury home in Hong Kong’s Tai Po was broken into during the Mid-Autumn Festival, with HK$900,000 in designer watches, cash and jewellery stolen, marking the second such burglary within 11 days in the district, with a total loss of HK$1.4 million.
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Police said they received a call at 9.06pm on Tuesday from a resident reporting signs of forced entry into a safe in his home in Hong Lok Yuen.
A source said the homeowner, 67, his wife and domestic helper had lived in the four-storey detached house for 20 years, with a 1.5-metre (five-foot) fence around the property but no surveillance cameras.
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The insider added the homeowner went out with his family for dinner at about 5.30pm without locking the windows on the first floor.
Officers sent to the house found two Patek Philippe watches worth about HK$700,000, two gold necklaces valued at about HK$100,000 and around HK$100,000 in cash were suspected to have been stolen, the source said.
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