Police arrest man over theft of luxury Burberry alligator coat

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Police arrest man over theft of luxury Burberry alligator coat

PUBLISHED : Friday, 21 February, 2014, 8:34pm
UPDATED : Friday, 21 February, 2014, 11:00pm

Danny Mok

The Burberry shop on Canton Road. Photo: Edward Wong

Police on Friday arrested two men in connection with the theft of a HK$995,000 alligator skin coat from a Burberry store in Tsim Sha Tsui.

A robber, who was caught on security cameras in the Burberry store, was 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.

Staff didn’t notice its’ disappearance until several hours later when they were doing a stock-take at closing time. The police were called 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.

Additional reporting by Clifford Lo and Ng Kang-chung