Jewellery worth more than US$12.5 million stolen from London home
Homeowners offer rewards of hundreds of thousands of pounds for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the suspect
Jewellery worth more than £10 million (US$12.5 million) as well as designer handbags worth £150,000 have been stolen from a house in Primrose Hill in London.
A white man aged in his late 20s to 30s broke into a house in Avenue Road between 5pm and 5.30pm on December 7 by climbing in through a second-floor window, the Metropolitan Police said.
He took the Hermes Crocodile Kelly handbags, £15,000 in cash as well as items of jewellery worth £10.4 million that included unique pieces.
The suspect was wearing a dark hoodie, cargo pants and a grey baseball cap, and kept his face covered.
Items that were taken include distinctive jewel-encrusted necklaces and bracelets.