A brazen thief was caught on camera stealing a Gazebo from a front garden.<br /><br />CCTV footage shows a man walking down the street in Gillingham, Kent.<br /><br />The man can be see entering the front garden and lifting the chained up gazebo - leaving one leg behind.<br /><br />Stuart Whibley, 50, noticed on Thursday June 20th that his gazebo was missing.<br /><br />When he checked his home CCTV, he was shocked to see what had happened. <br /><br />Stuart, from Gillingham, Kent, said: "It's a complete and utter nightmare.<br /><br />"My wife and I were both inside the house on Wednesday when the it happened but neither of us heard anything.<br /><br />"I just can't understand why someone wouldn't even knock on the door to ask if it was scrap or something."<br /><br />"They didn't even notice one of the legs was chained down, so they left without one of the legs.<br /><br />"It can't even really be used like that"<br /><br />Stuart and his wife Sherry use the gazebo to host seasonal charity events to raise money for mental health charity Mind UK and Cancer Research.<br /><br />The have run events for the past five years, but getting the 4x4 gazebo last year meant they could go the extra mile.<br /><br />They used the gazebo for two events - Halloween and Christmas - with the former bringing in £220 for Mind UK.<br /><br />Stuart said: "It's not going to be the same now we don't have the gazebo to extend the decorations out on to the pavement.<br /><br />"For Halloween last year, we had a walkway which turned into a maze through the gazebo.<br /><br />"My wife and I have both struggled with mental health issues, which is why it means so much for us to help out the charity like this.<br /><br />"Without the gazebo, the events are going to have to be a lot smaller."<br /><br />Stuart has reported the incident to the police.
