Gucci shoes worth HK$11,000 stolen from shopping centre restroom in Hong Kong

Hong Kong police are investigating after a pair of Gucci shoes worth HK$11,000 (US$1,404) were stolen from a restroom at Times Square in Causeway Bay,…

Hong Kong police are investigating after a pair of Gucci shoes worth HK$11,000 (US$1,404) were stolen from a restroom at Times Square in Causeway Bay, the South China Morning Post has learned.

A source said on Saturday that the victim, 48, had bought the shoes from the Gucci store on the second floor of the shopping centre before heading to the restroom on the third floor.

She left the shoes behind, and when she returned, she found the shoebox, but the footwear was missing, the source said.

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Police were alerted at 12.43pm by a security guard about a woman losing a pair of shoes at a shopping centre at No 1 Matheson Street.

After a preliminary investigation, police suspected the shoes worth about HK$11,000 were stolen from the woman in a restroom of the shopping centre, according to the force.

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Police said the case had been classified as theft and was being followed up by the force’s Wan Chai division, adding that no arrest had been made.