Brazen thieves threatened a bystander with a hammer when he tried to stop them stealing a motorbike. The threat was made as the offenders took Mark Powell's bike outside his Manchester city centre office on Monday (February 20).
Mark, who works in Canada House on Chepstow Street, watched in horror from his office as the scene unfolded on the street below. In footage shared with the M.E.N. he can be heard shouting an expletive before screaming 'that's my bike' after the thieves.
Mark said his Yamaha was stolen on the first day he'd ridden to work for months.
He had taken a long break from riding into work as he said the area was targeted by motorbike thieves last year.
“[Thefts were] happening every single day last year,” he told the M.E.N. “There was a gang and they would nick a bike and disappear. The police did a mission to catch them, and it quietened down for four or five months.
“I got on my bike and it's the first day I drove in on it [in months] and it gets nicked. There was a kid doing parkour at the front and he tried to stop them but they had a hammer.”
Mark’s bike is a black and blue Yamaha MT09, worth £10,000 new. It was taken at 3.32pm on Monday.
A spokesperson for GMP said that the force was investigating the theft. “No one has been arrested in connection with this yet, enquiries are still ongoing,” a statement confirmed.
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