Hooded thief pulls freshly-planted hyacinth from a couple's driveway flowerbed

Video captured the moment a hooded thief uprooted a freshly-planted hyacinth from a couple's flowerbed - before depositing it in her bag for life. In bizarre footage, the woman, who appears to be in her 60s, can be seen strolling along the driveway at the home of Dennis and Svitlana Jacobsen. She then swiftly pulls the flower out of the earth - bringing a clump of roots with it. The thief carefully places the hyacinth plant in her large blue carrier bag before walking across the road where she eyes up another flowerbed, seemingly in her sights. Mr and Mrs Jacobsen had only planted the flower a few weeks earlier. They realised it was missing after spotting a gap in their flowerbed the next day.