Carer’s Bike Stolen During Shift in Bournemouth Leaving Him Stranded

My friend Paul is a care home worker. He uses an electric bike to travel. On February 6th, he cycled to work. His job was at a care home on Belle Vue Road in Southbourne.

Paul locked his bike at work in the care home’s bike rack. After his shift, his bike was gone and Paul said he was shocked because he works hard for his money. He had worked a long, 12-hour shift.

Paul loves his bike, he always says. The electric bike is his main transport now, especially since he’s 64 years old. The bike helps him get around easily to places like the beach.

He travels wherever he wants and uses it to go to work daily as he does not drive a car. Paul was heartbroken his bike was stolen, and he is annoyed it vanished.

He must earn £600 for a new bike and needs money for another e-bike now. This bike helps him get to his job shifts. Paul has worked in care for over 20 years.

He spent 12 years as a community carer. Dorset Police are looking into the theft case. Police said they are doing inquiries, but no one has been arrested now.

A report looked at Bournemouth bike thefts using data from Plumplot. The crime rate is 1.1 per 1000 people, concerning Bournemouth postcodes. Bournemouth’s rate is 110 percent of the national rate, and this data is for February 2025.

Bike thefts are 1.2 percent of all crimes there. They reported 592 ‘bicycle theft crimes’, and that number fell by 8.2 percent from January to December of 2024.