Tearful Thomas takes to streets to find bike

‘Gutted’: Hooded thief takes bike which had only just been given to 11-year-old as gift

A devastated 11-year-old boy took to the streets of Dundee to track down his stolen bike.

Thomas Cox braved the rain after his yellow adult-sized bicycle was stolen from his home in Ardler.

The 11-year-old’s mum Michelle Donaldson watched in horror as a man dressed in a black hoodie appeared in her garden on Sunday night before taking Thomas’s bike.

Despite Michelle attempting to confront the intruder, the thief quickly pedalled off.

“Heartbroken” Thomas had only just received the bike as a present from his dad when the theft took place.

Michelle said: “Thomas is absolutely gutted.

“He had only just got the bike, he didn’t even have it two weeks.

“It was a gift from his dad. We aren’t together, so it was a big thing for him to get this.

“I got Thomas up for school at seven this morning and broke the news, he’s been in tears ever since.

“It’s devastating to think that someone would do this. It’s just awful.”

The nature of the theft has left Michelle understandably startled.

The mother-of-four revealed: “I’ve got quite big stone chippings on my path and a springer spaniel but I didn’t hear a single thing.

“I was kind of half asleep and couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

“I couldn’t get back to sleep after it. Every noise I heard I thought ‘Is someone out there?’ It’s terrible to feel like that in your own home.

“Thomas is away out in the rain to look for the bike. He’s convinced he can find it. “I need to get it back.” A Police Scotland spokesperson confirmed: “Police Scotland is dealing with the theft of a child’s bicycle from the front garden of an address in Turnberry Avenue, around 11.30pm last night (Sunday).

“A man, described as about 6ft in height and wearing a dark hooded top with white tassels, was seen to take the bike and make off towards Hazlehead Way.

“The bike itself is quite distinctive, being a yellow mountain bike with red suspension forks and Raleigh in red writing.”

If anyone has any information they can call 101 or speak to any police officer, quoting reference CR/14438/17.

It’s devastating to think someone could do this

Picture above: Steven Brown. Thomas Cox next to the yard in his Dundee home where his cycle, pictured below, was stolen on Sunday night.