Caught on camera: Amazing moment motorbike showroom workers fight off six raiders as they try to walk out with two £25,000 Ducati motorbikes

CCTV footage captures thugs armed with iron bars, hammers and bolt cutters

Six men flee after workers shove them out of the store, get one in a headlock and push another off his motorbike



You would think with any meticulously planned theft operation, the culprits would always be prepared to face a confrontation.



But these six raiders fled empty-handed from a motorbike showroom after tough staff fought them off with relative ease.

CCTV footage from the In-Moto showroom in Croydon, south London, shows two raiders, wearing motorbike helmets, walk into the shop and try to wheel away two £25,000 red Ducati Panigale motorbikes.

But when one of the workers at the showroom, Paul Read, discovered what they were doing, he grabbed the men, hauled the bikes back into the showroom and shoved the raiders out of the door - as well as two other thugs who had joined them.



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Two raiders pick out two motorbikes to steal as part of an armed raid by six thugs which is stopped by staff at the showroom

The raiders are grabbed and pushed out of the store by showroom worker Paul Read who is determined not to let them steal the bikes

Mr Read grapples with one raider inside the showroom while the other attempts to push the bike out of the store

The footage from inside the showroom shows the two raiders picking which bikes to steal.



Then Mr Read, 35, is shown grappling with the thugs and sending them on their way by kicking them out of the door.

And outside the showroom more raiders turn up - only to be confronted by the In-Moto manager Adrian Couzens and his team at around 5.30pm last Tuesday.

The footage captures Mr Couzens charging at a thug and knocking him off his moped outside the showroom and fending off another thug armed with a pair of bolt cutters.

Mr Couzens is joined by Mr Read, Mr Read’s 17-year-old son Tay and two workers from a nearby garage - who combine forces to send the six raiders racing off empty handed.

Manager Adrian Couzens runs from across the street and grapples with one raider outside the showroom in Croydon, getting him in a headlock

Putting up a fight: Mr Couzens continues to fend off one of the raiders as the other starts to flee

Mr Couzens then launches an attack at a raider in a high visibility vest, pushing him off his bike and away from the store

No messing around: Other people come to help fend off the raiders while Mr Couzens grapples with one still on a motorbike

Tay today said the staff at the superbike showroom stopped the raiders from wheeling away two new Ducati Panigale motorbikes - which can do 0-60mph in three seconds.

He said: 'They didn’t know what they were messing with when they tried to steal from us.

'They came in armed with iron bars, hammers and bolt cutters, but my dad fought off four of them in the showroom and Adrian and the rest fought them off outside the showroom.'

One angry thug returns to the showroom armed with a hammer as the workers push the bike back inside

And they still haven't gone: Staff look on in dismay as one thug attacks a mechanic with an iron bar

At one point in the CCTV, one of the thugs chases a mechanic with an iron bar and Paul Read is hit on the shoulder by a bolt cutter after a thug hurled it at him just seconds before the gang fled.

Tay Read added: 'These guys knew what they were doing - or at least they thought they did, but they got more then they bargained for on this occasion.'



Local Simon Brooks, 35, said: 'These scum tried to walk off with two superbikes which would take people years to save for.

'They got a taste of their own medicine though and crawled back into the hole they live in when they couldn’t deal with a bunch of guys simply doing their job.'



Police are appealing for witnesses.

Video: Courtesy In Moto, Croydon