Bentley shock as wheel thieves do the Continental

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Both the owner and the maker of this Bentley Continental were left close to disbelief after thieves stole its tyres and alloy wheels - worth several thousand pounds - leaving it perched on bricks.

The victim spent several minutes yesterday morning walking around his car before calling for help. A short time later, a fitter from Bentley arrived to replace the stolen wheels.

The car was parked on the corner of Holland Park and Abbotsbury Road. One member of the Bentley Owners Club said: "I've never heard of anything like this before, you would have thought the wheel locking nuts would have done their job."

A spokesman for Bentley said: "The wheels are so well protected most people wouldn't be able to get the dust covers off so they would have to be exceptionally skilled. Even if you get down to the locking bolts there is a special key code.

"Our technical team believes this must have been an exceptional set of circumstances or they got lucky or took a very long time."