CCTV footage has been released appearing to show a hooded man nonchalantly snatching an expensive bike from the front of a shop in Beckenham.

The store, Deens Garage Cycles, said the suspect rode up to its stand before cutting the cable off the new bike and making off.

It shared the video in the hopes of catching the “scumbag” who stole the bike in Croydon Road on Thursday (August 17) afternoon.

The retailer wrote: “If anyone is offered a Merida crossway 20MD urban, please let us know. Scumbag cut cable outside shop and rode off with it.”

A spokesman from the Met Police said they had no record of the incident.