A RESTAURANT OWNER says his heavily pregnant wife “has not stopped crying” since burglars stole their gold wedding jewellery worth £90,000.

Eddie Aygun who owns Gezi Park in Wanstead High Street was devastated when he found out the restaurant been broken into in the early hours of Sunday (April 16).

The 47-year-old arrived there just after 9am to find thieves had taken a safe full of his family’s gold and diamond jewellery, £5,000 cash, and 1000 Turkish Lira (£215).

All of his family’s passports, birth certificates, and Turkish IDs were also inside, as well as spare car keys for his two Range Rovers.

The father-of-two from Chingford said: “I was in complete shock when I got the phone call.

“When my colleague told me what happened I felt that pain as if someone had put a knife in me.

“They took everything.”

Mr Aygun claims the jewellery, some of which was given to him at his wedding 16 years ago, is worth as much as £90,000.

He added: “We’ve been buying gold every time we go back to Turkey since we moved here in 1992.

“I’ve got insurance, but I’m worried I won’t get everything back because there are so many little clauses.

“My wife is over seven months pregnant and she hasn’t stopped crying.

“I’m so worried about her and my unborn baby.”

CCTV footage seen by the Guardian shows a man prise open the restaurant’s shutters with a crowbar and break the glass door at 3.46am.

Two other men in hoods then follow him through the restaurant and down the stairs to the basement.

Around an hour later the trio re-emerge with the safe, which they load into a car parked in the high street before driving away at 4.42am.

Mr Aygun decided to keep his valuables at the restaurant while workmen decorated his house over the Easter weekend because he “thought they’d be safer”.

But after his 16 cameras, shutters, and the high-security safe failed to stop the thieves, he is calling on people in the area for any information that could help bring them to justice.

He said: “I’m a good person and I’ve always tried to help people in this community, so now I’m asking for their help, please.

“If the system doesn’t punish these people, it’s going to happen again. And it might be worse next time, they might kill someone.

“The police need to take this seriously, because this time it’s happened to me, but who knows who it’ll be next.”

Wanstead High Street butchers The Ginger Pig were also broken into last month (March 20).

Mr Agyun said he had to stop advertising free food for homeless people after his customers told him it was attracting “anti-social and criminal behaviour” to the high street.

Anyone with any information about the burglary should call the Metropolitan Police on 101.

They have been contacted for further comment.