Shocking video footage has emerged showing a gang of brazen thieves stealing a motorbike during an early morning raid.
Four people wearing balaclavas targeted the vehicle as it was parked outside a property on Bath Street in Portobello, near Edinburgh, on Thursday, June 29.
The doorbell footage shows the group walk onto the driveway before using bolt cutters to free the bike within seconds.
Despite the vehicle’s alarm system sounding loudly, the gang then fled the scene with the restored Yamaha DT125, which had been sprayed blue.
Speaking to Edinburgh Live, the bike’s owners Suzanne McIntosh and her husband Callum described the theft as “horrific”. She said: "The alarm woke the neighbours up as it's the type that gets louder and louder.
"You can clearly see a group of people approaching the bike with bolt cutters. Callum had a bike stolen a few years ago that was found burnt out at Portobello Golf Course so he had every security device known.
"He had just finished restoring the bike after buying it from a garage in Newcastle, he found parts for it and sprayed it but as you can see they took it within seconds, it's horrific.
"I had been working late last night and as it was the last day of school the street was quite busy and loud so we had just slept through it all. They must have just spotted it and thought 'we're having that'."
Suzanne and Callum are now in the process of phoning around nearby businesses and locals to see if they caught any footage of the thieves before or after the incident.
After putting a post in a local Facebook group, Suzanne said a few people got in touch to say they saw the bike being ridden along the High Street at 3am.
After the bike was cut from its secure base, the thieves are seen wheeling it out of the drive and around the corner.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "Around 3.20am on Thursday, 29 June, 2023, police received a report of the theft of a Yamaha motorbike from the Bath Street area of Edinburgh.
"Enquiries are being carried out by officers from the North East Motorbike Theft Initiative team.”
