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This is the moment the brakes are put on an alleged bike thief - when the owner catches him CYCLING past the very spot he stole his bike from just the day before.

Timour Wielemans, 18, was left fuming when his £400 mountain bike disappeared from the street where he had left it locked up.

It was taken on Wednesday as he went to work at a punting company on the river in Cambridge - leaving him with an hour and a half walk home.

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But the following afternoon stunned Timour saw the crook coolly pedaling past on HIS bike chatting on his mobile phone. He gave chase and caught him and challenged him as work colleagues joined him in support and called police.

Timour got his bike back from the alleged thief and the drama was caught on camera by a local photographer. The man then fled before a PCSO arrived to take statements from the true owner and his friends.

Timour, a student from Belgium, said: "I was on the street selling tickets for the punts then I saw him. I was shocked then I realised I had to do something.

"I just dropped everything and ran after him and stopped the bike and asked him, 'did you steal my bike?' He probably didn't expect me to see him. He was about 100 metres from where he stole the bike from.

"The PCSO thought maybe he had the same bike as me but then she saw the pictures of him. She knew who he was and said: 'Yep, he's a bike thief that's definitely your bike'."

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A spokesman for Cambridgeshire Police told the Mail Online enquiries into the incident were ongoing.