Australian consul-general for Hong Kong wakes to find luxury home ransacked

Australia’s consul-general for Hong Kong and Macau has become the latest victim in a series of high-profile break-ins at luxury residences across the territory.

Police received a burglary report from 39 Island Road in Deep Water Bay at 6:33am this morning, after Paul Tighe woke up to find one of the rooms in his three-storey house had been ransacked.

He and his wife were asleep when the intrusion occurred.

The residence is guarded by security and installed with CCTV cameras, yet scaffolding from a construction site nearby may have provided the entrance for the culprit.   

Police are still trying to establish the value of the missing items, but according to Apple Daily, early estimates suggests the goods were worth around HKD100,000.

Not bad for a morning’s graft.

The incident marks the latest in a long string of burglaries at the residences of high-profile Hongkongers.

On April 3, a mainland man was caught trying to break into the Deep Water Bay home of Li Ka-shing, Asia’s richest man.

Three days later, another man was nabbed trying to break into the Indian consul’s pad in Happy Valley.

In February, valuables worth more than HKD250,000 were reported stolen from the Stanley home of Goldman Sachs banker Ronald Lee.

And last year in October, flamboyant tycoon Cecil Choa saw HKD10 million worth of goods vanish from the bathroom safe of his mansion on Victoria Road.

How the other half live and lose, eh. 
 


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