Mr Chitsatso said they only had time to grab their passports before running out of the building without their shoes.

"My youngest daughter was running behind me with my shoes saying 'take, father', as if she thought I was going away."

He also agreed to forfeit dozens of designer bags and shoes as well as a money counting machine, all of which prosecutors said were either ill-gotten gains or goods used to further criminal activity.

"The mounds of hair, the shoes, the suitcases, the names and details, everything that was so meticulously kept, except for human life," he added.

So Lynch continually reached out to audiences with references to “The Wizard of Oz,” trusting that everyone would know the meaning of putting his “Wild at Heart” heroine Lulu in red shoes.