This is the moment a brazen thief tried to charge an Uber Eats cyclist £20 to buy his OWN £2,000 bike back - which he had just stolen from outside a McDonald's in Gloucestershire.
In a viral video, Harry Virgoe, 22, can be seen receiving a warning message while inside the fast food restaurant in Gloucester on April 8, telling him his expensive e-bike was being moved.
In dramatic scenes captured by his GoPro camera, Mr Virgoe shouts: 'Someone's got my bike', before running outside the Westgate Street chain and chasing thief Kean Cunningham, 42, as he cycles away into the darkness.
Kean Cunningham, 42, points to cash machine as he asks Harry Virgoe, 22, for £20 to give him his own bike back
Cheltenham Magistrates Court confirmed that Kean Cunningham (pictured) was committed to prison for 16 weeks in total on April 10
Mr Virgoe (pictured), from Hucclecote, Gloucester, agreed to give Cunningham the money in a bid to stall before police arrived
'Hero' delivery driver (left) confronts bike thief Cunningham (right), after helping Mr Virgoe track him down in his car
The battery-powered bike had cost Mr Virgoe £1,700 while the tracker, lights, seat pads and other accessories raised its value to just over £2,000.
In the video, Mr Virgoe pleads with the thief to stop as he runs out of breath while chasing after him - before quickly employing the help of a 'hero' delivery driver and his car to hunt Cunningham down by using a tracking app on his phone.
Mr Virgoe can be heard liaising with police as the pair catch up with the thief, before finally intercepting him as he shouts: 'Put the bike down, bro'.
Despite being caught red-handed, the brazen thief dismounts and even tries to charge Harry £20 to buy it back - but police quickly swoop in to arrest him.
Mr Virgoe has since expressed his gratitude to the stranger for his heroics, suggesting the selfless samaritan was more eager to find the bike than he was.
He says he offered to pay the driver, who he branded a 'legend', for his time and help, but he flat out refused to accept any money.
Cunningham, meanwhile, was jailed for 16 weeks two days later for theft of a bike while serving a suspended sentence and was ordered to pay the victim £815 in compensation - but Mr Virgoe says he hasn't seen a penny of it yet.
The grateful cyclist has since shared his GoPro footage on YouTube where it has racked up more than 360,000 views, with users heaping praise on the 'legendary' helper.
Mr Virgoe, from Hucclecote, Gloucester, said: 'I couldn't believe the audacity he had to ask me for £20, but he was obviously panicking and that's the first thing he thought of.
The 'hero' delivery driver (pictured) has been praised in the video of the incident online, which has garnered more than 300,000 hits
Cunningham immediately begins demanding £20 for the bike after being intercepted
Moment 'hero' delivery driver agrees to help Mr Virgoe track down his bike's thief
Mr Virgoe said pretending to get the money brought Cunningham (pictured left) under the Tesco shop light, allowing him to capture better quality footage of him on his GoPro camera (Pictured right : Delivery driver talks to Tesco security guard)
Mr Virgoe parked his bike outside the McDonald's (pictured) and had planned to be inside the restaurant for 30 seconds when it was stolen
'He was lying enough times to believe it himself, and once you do that it does sound convincing. I knew it was him [who stole the bike]. He was just talking out of his a**e.
'He was quite intimidating. He's a big guy.
