Father rides to the rescue over bicycle
Published: February 19, 2007
A student was reunited with her stolen bike after her dad made a 360-mile trip to come to the rescue.
Mitali Manuel, a law student at New Hall, Cambridge, lost her treasured Raleigh bike when it was stolen from a cycle rack outside her college in Huntingdon Road.
When she told her father Arnand, 53, what had happened, he offered to drive from Manchester with a replacement bike.
But, in a bizarre twist, as he was dropping it off, he spotted Mitali’s original bike, and ran after the teenager who was riding it to confront him.
He said: “My daughter had called me really stressed and mad, because her bike had been stolen and it had disrupted her studies and routine - she couldn’t get to her faculty and library as easily as she had before.
“I offered to come down with my wife with a new bike for her, but when I was outside New Hall we saw a young man on a bike which looked just like hers.
“He was a good 100 metres away, so I ran after him along Huntingdon Road, and fortunately he stopped at some traffic lights, allowing me to catch up.
“He said he had found the bike in a bush and handed it over straight away - so I was able to return my daughter’s bike, which had a lot of sentimental value to her.”
Mitali, 21, said: “Dad ran through traffic, weaving his way across the road to reach the teenager on my bike, and I couldn’t believe I had got it back.
“It is my bike from my childhood - I did my cycling proficiency on it, and in Cambridge you grow very close to your bike because you spend so much time on it, so I was really pleased to be reunited with it.”
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