Uber driver turned amateur sleuth tracks down his stolen bike from thieves

An Uber Eats operator turned amateur detective has recovered his stolen electrical motorcycle conscionable days aft it was stolen from extracurricular a food and spot shop.

Father-of-two Shakeel Ahmed Khan posed arsenic a locksmith to get his £1,250 motorcycle back.

The 36-year-old transportation antheral was picking up a takeaway bid erstwhile a thief grabbed his motorcycle from extracurricular the restaurant.

The part-time dock idiosyncratic ran retired of the chippy, but it was excessively acheronian and the track-suit-wearing culprit had already taken off.

Although Mr Ahmed Khan reported this incidental to the constabulary consecutive away, helium decided that helium couldn’t hold for them to investigate.

‘I couldn’t hold for the constabulary to get it sorted, I wanted to get it sorted arsenic speedy arsenic I could,’ helium said.

He inactive had the keys to the bike, and helium knew the thief would request to instrumentality it to a locksmith successful bid to get the electrical motorcycle moving again.

He said: ‘I started by calling each the repair shops and locksmiths I could find [in] the metropolis – 3 had a telephone astir a mislaid cardinal and 1 was capable to springiness maine a telephone number.’

He posed arsenic a locksmith and reached retired to the mobile fig helium received, adjacent giving a punctuation for the outgo of a replacement cardinal to beryllium made successful bid to dependable much legitimate.

Mr Ahmed Khan got an code – helium thought the thief would person been the idiosyncratic who contacted the locksmith, but it turned retired to beryllium the idiosyncratic who the Sheng Mi Lo electrical motorcycle was sold to.

He said the purchaser told him ‘If you springiness maine £60 I tin springiness it backmost to you, it’s your bike’.

Mr Ahmed Khan said: ‘I was told the thief had sold it to the antheral I approached for £60 – I didn’t attraction what the concern was, I conscionable wanted my backmost truthful I could supply for my children.

‘So, I gave him £60 and was reunited with my motorcycle – I could yet instrumentality a existent suspiration of relief.’

A caller electrical motorcycle would person acceptable him backmost much than £1,000.

On wherefore helium paid to get his ain stolen motorcycle back, helium said: ‘What I thought is if I’m getting this 1 backmost for £60, that’s fine.’

Mr Ahmed Khan earns much arsenic a transportation operator successful wintertime than helium does successful summer.

‘My transportation occupation pays much than my time occupation [in winter]. I was looking guardant to spending much clip connected my transportation job,’ helium said.

After his motorcycle was stolen connected September 25, it took Mr Ahmed Khan conscionable 2 days to get it back.

‘This motorcycle is similar my breadstuff and food – its truly important to maine arsenic it is however I marque a batch of my income.

‘When I enactment Friday nighttime and the weekend, I tin marque up to £100 a time – helping maine supply for my 2 children,’ helium said.

Mr Ahmed Khan, who obtained CCTV of the incidental successful his efforts arsenic an amateur detective, said his woman thought helium watched a batch of transgression documentaries and that this was wherefore helium became an amateur sleuth erstwhile his motorcycle was stolen.

The transportation operator present takes other steps to marque definite his motorcycle is unafraid erstwhile he’s retired doing deliveries – previously, helium wouldn’t fastener the motorcycle up if helium would beryllium successful and retired of a takeaway store successful little than a minute.

‘Even if I’m going successful and coming out, I’m going to fastener it now,’ helium said.

Hampshire Constabulary confirmed it had launched an probe into the stolen motorcycle soon earlier it was recovered connected September 27.

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