An Ashford man has launched an appeal to find his girlfriends bike.

Jim Barrett posted the CCTV footage from The Albion pub showing a man riding away on what he believes to be his bike last night.

The 35-year-old had popped into the South Willesborough pub after work for a quick pint but was shocked to find his locked-up bike had disappeared.

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He said: "The girlfriend was working late so I went to the pub for a quick pint. I left just around 11pm, went to get the bike but realised it had gone."

Mr Barrett told landlord Ian Rampton he thought his bike had been stolen and the pair looked on the pub's security camera.

The footage shows a young man and woman walk across the pub's dead-end car park and disappear for a few moments before the man rides back across on the bike.

The footage shows a man and woman enter the car park and head towards the dead-end.

Mr Barrett added: "It's my girlfriends bike that I bought her about a year ago for £500 so it's rubbish for her. I borrowed it to get to work.

"It was locked up with one of those wire combination locks so they must have used pliers or something to break that off.

"It looks like they knew it was there because there's no other reason to walk to that end of the car park, it's a dead end.

"It would be great to find the bike and get it back."

Landlord Ian Rampton added: "We checked all the cameras and it doesn't look like they'd been in the pub at all.

"We put it on Facebook and it's gone crazy, it's had loads of shares. Hopefully someone will come forward."