Around £10.4million worth of jewellery has been stolen in a daring raid on a mansion in north London, police said. A lone burglar entered through a second-floor window at the property near Avenue Road,

The home owners are offering a £500,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the suspect, who climbed in through a second-floor window.

Designer handbags worth thousands of pounds were also taken in the burglary in Avenue Road on December 7. Jewellery worth more than £10 million as well as designer handbags worth £150,000 have been stolen from a house in Primrose Hill in London.