A family business is reeling after up to 85 pairs of bespoke designer women’s shoes worth up to £20,000 were stolen in an overnight raid.

A callous thief or thieves lowered themselves from a high back window of Joseph Azagury in Wimbledon Village with a belt, took a bag and filled it with handmade sandals and heeled shoes, according to the owners.

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Eva Azagury, above, who runs the business with her husband Joseph, was shocked to discover piles of discarded boxes littering the shop floor in Church Road when they opened up the day after the burglary on Tuesday, May 10.

She quickly realised the boxes were empty and alerted police.

The shoes were worth between £250 and £350 a pair.

Mrs Azagury said: “I was very shocked, I didn’t expect anything like that to happen in Wimbledon, it feels quite safe.

“Police said they hadn’t had any robberies recently in the village.”

She said they did not know how many people had broken in, but whoever it was did not take the till or anything except the expensive shoes made in Merton and other parts of the country.

She said it looked like the burglar ransacked the shop because the cupboards were open and boxes were strewn across the floor.

The family-run business, which moved from its base in Knightsbridge last June, is counting the cost of the theft, with stock worth between £15,000 and £20,000 missing.

A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said officers were called at 10.30am on Wednesday, May 11, to reports of a burglary.

She stated the owners said they left the premises secure on the Tuesday evening and came back the following morning to find they had been broken into.

Police are not issuing any suspect descriptions and no arrests have been made.