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Charles Gray & Ryan Fahey

Moment brazen thieves nick family's caravan from outside their home in broad daylight

This is the moment a thief stole a Yorkshire family's caravan next to their home in broad daylight.

CCTV footage shows a driver in a jeep making off with the caravan from the field next to the home of Phil and Kath Holt in Great Houghton, South Yorkshire, at 4.15pm on Sunday August 15.

A second man walks leisurely behind the mobile home as he swings something in his hand.

In a second clip, taken near the trailer, the driver pulls up to the caravan as the walking thief attaches it to the car.

The couple said the caravan had great sentimental value as they used to ride it on holiday, Yorkshire Live reports.

They also travel in the caravan every other weekend to attend motocross events and have set up a GoFundMe page to raise funds for a new one.

Phil, 53, said: "We used to take it on family holidays. There's a lot of memories in it.

"It's as if someone's come and stolen your house."

On the day of a race meeting, five days after it was swiped, Phil walked to the field expecting to hop in and get on his way but his caravan was nowhere to be seen.

He said: "I went on to the field to load up the caravan and it had disappeared.

"We were lucky with CCTV but I just can't believe that somebody's had the audacity to go in to a secure place and steal something like that."

Phil believes the robbery was targeted because the man in the video walks straight to the caravan.

He said: "They have got in and gone straight to ours. Even though there's bigger and newer ones. It's strange."

He added: "There was all the girls on there doing stuff and they didn't give it a second thought."

The couple's son, Josh, is a motocross racer and his partner Alexandra Baldwin set up the fundraiser for the "loved member[sic] of the motocross family".

Phil and Kath attend motocross events every other weekend at locations across the UK (examinerlive/ WS)

She said: "I'm just wanting to raise a little money to help them put towards another caravan. Without one they are going to struggle to attend race meetings.

"They have both helped so many people in many different ways and I'm just wanting to help give something back to them."

Alexandra and Josh and their two children attend races in another caravan, so they don't have enough room for Phil and Kath.

She said: "We go to most of the events which is why it's so frustrating. If we didn't we could let them use ours."

The fundraiser is on its way to meet their £2,000 goal after several friends chipped in a total of £300 since it started on August 20.

Alexandra said: "It's not been too bad but I would think more people in the motocross community would have donated.

"They (Phil and Kath) have always been there for them when they have been stuck but now they need help."

To donate to or view the fundraiser click here.

South Yorkshire Police are aware of the theft., YorkshireLive say.

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