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This is the horrifying moment a group of thugs armed with axes and machetes brazenly steal a man’s motorbike from outside his home.
The owner, named Justas, was left devastated after his 2016 Yamaha MT10 was stolen at night by an armed gang.
He shouted at the thieves from his bedroom window in an attempt to thwart the theft, but had two rocks hurled at him which smashed the window and missed his head by just inches.
An alarm can be heard going off as one runs off wearing a white helmet, the other quickly wheels the bike away through the gate and a third is seen lobbing missiles at the victim’s window.
Holding a huge axe and a 15-inch machete, the gang then left a chilling message for the owner.
One laughed: ‘Bye bye MT10’ before adding: ‘Just remember, I know where you live, and you don’t know where I live.
‘We’ll be back.’
Both his front door and living room window were jammed shut, so he could only watch helplessly as the gang walked off with his £8,000 wheels.
It follows an ongoing nightmare for the family, who live in Harrow, north west London, which started on April 24.
Then, thieves armed with an axe and bolt cutters initially tried to steal the bike, but Justas and his family ran out in time to confront the four men who quickly fled.
But when they called police he says they were told no crime had been committed.
After the first attempt, Justas spent over £1,000 on better security, buying a bike tracker, a chain, padlock, anchor and an alarm.
Yet he still came to be woken at 4am in June to find his front door and living room window jammed shut, he believes by men holding metal bars.
‘I started banging on the living room window hard. My anger took over,’ Justas recalled.
‘They’ve been grinding my chain for a while. I can’t hear the police or see their lights.’
Before leaving, another thief threw a large glass ball at his bedroom window.
Police arrived about 20 minutes later, but the thieves had already found and thrown the tracker, alarm, and windshield onto nearby railway tracks.
He says police left shortly after to attend another robbery.
The next day, Justas and his family searched the bike’s last known location and found pieces of his broken bike and a stolen number plate thrown onto railway tracks.
The number plate had been reported stolen to the Metropolitan Police last August, but officers said it wasn’t relevant.
But just days later a man named Callum contacted him on Reddit about his own motorbike that was stolen three years ago and was an identical make.
It was found on April 23 during a police chase with a false number plate that was Justas’ real registration.
Justas had never shared details of his original bike publicly and despite reporting the link to the police, along with Callum’s crime number, it was again dismissed as ‘just a coincidence’ and ‘not connected.’
The victim says he and his girlfriend have since witnessed stolen motorbikes being used on London’s streets, but says he feels police don’t take action quickly enough when they are reported – leaving gangs free to plunder people’s bikes.
Met Police figures show a staggering 29,000 motorbikes were snatched between 2019 and 2023.
A spokesperson for the Met said: ‘Police were called at 02.47hrs on Tuesday, 10 June to reports of the theft of a motorbike and threats of violence at an address in Kenton, Harrow.
‘No arrests have been made and enquiries continue.
‘We recognise the impact of bike theft and understand the disruption it causes for victims.
‘Officers carry out patrols and operations across London and will carry out enquiries when offences are reported.
‘If you have any information that could help police please call 101 quoting CAD 0534/10Jun.’
