Brazen thieves have been caught on camera fleeing in a stolen car after breaking into a family home to steal the keys.

The thieves broke into the home in Largs, a town in Scotland, in the middle of the night before driving off in a Volkswagen Golf on Sujnday at around 1:40am.

David Rae, 51, shared a post on social media in a bid to trace the thieves, and within hours an eagle-eyed Greenock resident remembered seeing the car and called the police.

She spotted the car on a different street to the home at around 11.30am and, after seeing the social media post, returned at 6pm to see two men rushing back to the car.

The quick-thinking woman filmed the men fleeing the scene in the stolen vehicle alongside two other cars - one of which was a black VW Caddy.