More than £7,000 worth of bikes and electrical goods have been stolen from a workshop in Deal.

Nathan Fox, 34, who owns Bumper2Bumper on the Southwall Road Industrial Estate, said thieves broke into the workshop last Sunday in broad daylight.

They took two motorbikes worth £6,500, a laptop and crash helmet worth £500.

CCTV shows the men taking the bikes but only one of the motorbikes would start, so the footage shows how they “borrowed” a salvage car parked outside the workshop to take one of the bikes and then returned the vehicle with its keys later that evening, as if nothing had happened.

Mr Fox said the bizarre act was all revealed on the CCTV cameras.

He said: “I’ve got my ear to the ground to see if the bikes are sold but I don’t think they would be kept locally now, especially as they are all over Facebook.”

He posted pictures of the footage, which showed at least two men in bobble hats, on to his social media page but so far there has been no luck in identifying them.

He said: “There’s a big gate that gets locked every night on the industrial estate but this was 6.15pm, there was still people doing their work here but no one saw anything.”

Mr Fox, who lives in Kingsdown, has run Bumper2Bumper, the vehicle body shop and repair centre, for five years and has been on the industrial estate for seven. He said the venue has always been a safe site and something like this has never happened before.

He initially posted the pictures on social media in the hope that the thieves would be identified by fellow residents, or anyone who may have seen the borrowed car driving up Mill Road before it was returned. Mr Fox said he is not hopeful of seeing the bikes returned but does hope the culprits can be caught.

If anyone has any information they are asked to call police on 101.