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. READ MORE: Tortured to death in a cold blooded killing fuelled by jealousy and revenge...how Thomas Campbell was betrayed by a woman who claimed to love him “[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.
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