Thief walks out of Burberry store wearing HK$995,000 alligator coat
The brazen robber - who was caught on security cameras in the Burberry store in Tsim Sha Tsui - is understood to have simply lifted the trench coat off the mannequin it was on and calmly walked out of the store into the crowded Silvercord shopping mall on Canton Road at around 7.30pm on Wednesday.
An audacious shoplifter left one of the world's biggest designer brands red-faced after he walked out of a Hong Kong store with a HK$995,000 alligator skin coat.
Staff didn't notice it was gone until several hours later when they were doing a stock take at closing time. The police were called in at midnight.
The light grey garment had only been delivered to the store hours earlier and was not fitted with a security tag, police said.
Security cameras showed a Chinese man in his 30s or 40s taking the jacket off the mannequin inside the three-storey store and walking out unchallenged.
He was in and out of the shop - one of 14 Burberry has in the city - in around a minute, one police officer said. They believe the thief was acting alone.
Shop assistants appeared unaware of the man as they were serving other customers.