Brit turns detective and tracks down his stolen bike advertised on Facebook - in ROMANIA

A Brit turned private detective to track down his stolen bike after seeing it advertised on Facebook - in ROMANIA.

Kelston Chorley, 67, said he was forced to embark on his own investigation after police closed his case with 'little interest' in recovering his beloved vehicle.

He was furious when his AJP PR7 bike was stolen from his garage and reported it to Thames Valley Police - but said all they did was 'log the crime' without ever looking into it.

It was then flown out of the country by thieves and ended up on the streets of a small village north of the capital Bucharest - 1,700 miles from his home in Oxford.

But after seeing it for sale on social media, Kelston jumped straight on a flight to try and get it back.

And with the help of local police in Romania, he has now been reunited with it and is in the process of getting it transported back home.

Kelston said afterwards he felt the police in Romania were similar to what Britain had "in the 1970's".

He said: "I spoke to the police over here and they weren’t interested, I spoke to my insurance company and they weren’t interested.

"So basically people can nick bikes, ship them off to Eastern Europe and no one really is going to bother doing anything about it.

"When I got to the main Romanian police station in the capital they said that the best people to handle it would be the local police stations, and they were absolutely right.

"It's like the UK was in the 70's - you had a bobby on the beat and he knew what was around.

"So when I arrived at this local police station and looked at the website to see where it was, they said they could get it all nailed down and they did - they had it sorted in less than 24 hours".

The bike, which remains in Romania but is now in storage, was previously used by Kelston to ride across the Atacama Desert.