22 February 2024 , 15:28
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A boy was left "heartbroken" after a delivery driver appeared to steal his bike from a front garden in broad daylight.
Beckie Wheeldon’s son Kyren had cycled 20 minutes to see a pal, in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, on his bike - which had been a Christmas present - on February 15. But a few hours later, as he left the house, his beloved bike had vanished. Shockingly, CCTV seemingly captured where it had vanished too. It showed it seemingly being nicked by the delivery driver who’d stopped by the house.
Beckie told NottinghamshireLive: "This is heartbreaking for him. He was crying his eyes out on the phone to me telling me what had happened. I thought that it would've just been a normal young lad nicking the bike to get a bit of money. You'd never have thought it would be a delivery driver. He absolutely loved that bike. I was angry and upset for him."
Kyren had been given the mountain bike on Christmas Day last year and Beckie said it was “his way of socialising” as he rode on a local BMX track.
On the day of the incident, he had cycled to the home of a friend of the family's old nextdoor neighbour, where the old neighbour was paying the homeowner a visit, at around 4pm. Around an hour and a half later, at 5.25pm, a delivery driver who worked for a delivery service partner of Amazon arrived with a parcel for the homeowner.
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Footage captures the delivery man leaving the parcel behind a wheelie bin at the front of the property before heading back to his van. In the video he glances across at the bike, but continues past it, before turning around to look at it again before disappearing out of shot.
The delivery driver seemingly walked off with the boy's bike (NottinghamshireLive)But less than half a minute later, the delivery driver reappears, picks up the bike by its seat and wheels it to his van. The Amazon branded van is then seen being driven off. Kyren realised his bike was missing a short time after the parcel had been dropped off.
He always planned to leave not much later, having been told by his mother to return home when the street lights came on. Distraught after the theft, Kyren rang him mum then had to walk home for 45 minutes. The next day, Beckie returned and knocked on neighbours’ doors.
Thankfully, the house adjacent to the garden had a CCTV camera which caught the shocking footage. She said: "When I saw it I thought: "Oh my God. It's not something you see every day. It's a waiting game now. Kyren's sat at home or in the front garden speaking to the neighbour. He wants to go the BMX track but he can't."
A spokesperson for Amazon said: "We have very high standards for the delivery service providers we work with and how they serve customers. We are taking this matter seriously and have contacted the customer to make this right. The delivery driver will no longer be delivering Amazon parcels."
A spokesperson for Nottinghamshire Police said: "We are investigating reports of a theft. Investigations are ongoing and any additional witnesses are asked to call us on 101 quoting incident 444 of 16 February 2024."