Full story, i was stood outside the chippy with the bike, the lad walked in to order with a big group of lads and lasses he then walked out just as someone was chatting to me, he then grabbed it and took off down the back streets, the servers saw him and identified him through an image my mother look of him ( i phoned her as she had a car not too far away) she saw him hopping a fence and took a photo, i im,idiatley said that was him along with the staff who served him, the police said that they cant accept there statment or something along those lines as we shoeed them a photo... So f*cking what! How that makes a difference i dont know.
I wanted to 100 percent make sure it was him and three said it definatley was before i acted on it as the police were still nowhere to be seen. they then arrived and locked me in a police car while they fannied about, we told them which house it was and where he was seen hopping the fence but it took them atleast another hour to actually go to where we said. There was alot of officers that responded but the point they didnt go to the correct place right away and do a search is what is annoying me. They then arrested the lad and he refused to comment so he did not deny doing it, he then said he would just play up so he would get sent to the mental hospital instead.
We got a tip off from someone in the estate saying there neighbour was bragging about "nicking that few grand bike". We phoned the police immidiatley and they said the officer wasnt on duty so he would respond in 3 days time, the copper called and told us he looked into it and said he knocked on the door and they knew nothing about it. (Obviosuly they arent going to invite him in to view a stolen bike) anyway another officer called me a few weeks later and he said when i mentioned this info that the police were not aware of it and nobody had investigated it. Then the otherday is when the original officer left the voicemail saying he had been in the original guys house and found no clothes so is closing the case.