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Danny Mok

Residents of a luxury home in Hong Kong have lost jewellery worth HK$751,000 after a break-in while they were dining downstairs.
Police received a report of the break-in at 9.50pm on Saturday from a 69-year-old man, the owner of the two-storey house at Greenwood Terrace on Sui Wo Road in Fo Tan.
He said his master bedroom had been broken into and a jewellery box pried open, with 10 necklaces, 15 rings and six brooches missing.
The loss was estimated at about HK$751,000 (US$95,838).
The man said he had checked the bedroom around 6pm before joining his family for dinner in the ground-floor living room.
When he later returned, he found the bedroom door locked from inside. After unlocking it, he discovered the room had been ransacked and the jewellery stolen.
Investigators noted that a window without protective grilles had been opened.
They believe the intruder climbed in from the hillside under cover of darkness, entered the master bedroom through the window, and then escaped the same way after taking the valuables.
A police source said the house reportedly had no security cameras installed, and the estate’s surveillance system was out of order.
The man has lived in the house with his wife and daughter for three decades.
Police searched the estate and nearby slope but made no arrests. The case is being handled by a Sha Tin district investigation team.
In a separate incident at the nearby Royal Ascot estate, a resident returned home at about 6.40pm on Sunday to find signs of attempted forced entry on his front door.
It is not yet known whether any property was stolen.


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Owner of home at Greenwood Terrace in Fo Tan said jewellery box pried open, with 10 necklaces, 15 rings and six brooches missing


Owner of home at Greenwood Terrace in Fo Tan said jewellery box pried open, with 10 necklaces, 15 rings and six brooches missing.


HK$751,000 worth of jewellery stolen while owners dine at Hong Kong luxury home

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Owner of home at Greenwood Terrace in Fo Tan said jewellery box pried open, with 10 necklaces, 15 rings and six brooches missing