This is the moment a pair of bad Santas are caught on camera plundering a phone shop after crowbarring their way in.

CCTV footage shows the Jingle Bells duo raiding the store in Brazil in full Father Christmas outfits, complete with fake white beards.

The clips show them first casing the shop in Claudio, in the state of Minas Gerais, on December 1 and then returning in the early hours of the morning to carry out the raid.

Instead of the traditional route down the chimney, the Santas went straight to the top of the naughty list when they shattered the glass front door and forced their way in.

Footage shows them chaotically ransacking the store, stuffing their loot into sacks and bin liners, slipping on broken glass, and bumping into each other in their haste.

Finally, they flee as neighbours, woken by the racket the pair made, raise the alarm.

Local media reported that they stole 32 smartphones and other electronic equipment.

Store owner Gustavo Oliveira de Souza told local media he had already been robbed at gunpoint before the Santa break-in.

He said: 'I was approached, shots were fired and I managed to escape. It was a great trauma.

'Now, again, people have taken my merchandise away.'

City Military Police are investigating the burglary.