Tochi Ijomah watches via his phone as thief steals online shopping parcel from his Camden Park home

A father has recalled the moment he helplessly watched a brazen daylight theft at his western suburbs home from his phone.

A father helplessly watched CCTV footage as a brazen thief stole a $350 delivery package from the doorstep of his Camden Park home.

Tochi Ijomah was out shopping with his wife and two young boys, when he received a mobile phone alert from his home security ring camera, notifying him of “motion” at the front of their home around 1.30pm on Saturday.

Mr Ijomah saw a “dispatch lady” dropping off a shopping order containing “personal clothes and winter clothes for the kids”.

“I said to my wife that … we needed to quickly go home so that we could take the parcel. It was just a premonition, I just had that weird feeling,” The 40-year-old told The Advertiser.

Tochi Ijomah, had a package stolen from his Camden Park home 15 minutes after it was delivered. Picture: Supplied

A man on a scooter, watched by an accomplice, is alleged to have taken the package from Mr Ijomah’s home. Picture: Supplied

About 10 minutes later, the ring camera alert “came up again” and Mr Ijomah spotted a guy

riding a scooter towards their front door.

“I said, ‘oh, who is this’ when they stopped [then] said to my wife, ‘I think these guys are going to steal our parcel,” he said.

“Next thing, they rode straight to my house and I turned on the [camera] mic and I said, ‘who is that? thief, thief, thief’.

The scooter riding bandit had dropped the package on the walkway while fleeing the scene, then CCTV captured someone picking up the parcel at 1.46pm.

The incident was reported to police but no arrests have been made.

The event took place around 15 minutes after the package was delivered. Picture: Supplied

Mr Ijomah did not recognise the duo but his neighbours had recently noticed two people “roaming the street”. Picture: Supplied

Mr Ijomah has now applied for an Australian parcel locker to keep his deliveries safe, but hoped the thieves would have accessed services that help vulnerable people. Picture: Supplied

Mr Ijomah did not recognise the duo – who he believes are in their “mid-thirties or older” –

but his neighbours had recently noticed two people “roaming the street”.

“[My neighbour] was taking groceries from his car into his house … and he still had the car trunk open,” he said.

“While he was coming out of his house to pick up the remaining groceries, he saw someone on a bike immediately turn around and zoom off from his car, when [they] saw him coming out.”

“My other neighbour … noticed the couple were moving around, but were not sure who they were.

“But when they saw the video and saw the red shorts, the black shirts, the electric scooter, they were like, ‘oh, yes, these were the people we saw on the streets all week.”

Mr Ijomah has now applied for an Australian parcel locker to keep their deliveries safe, but hoped the thieves would have accessed services that help vulnerable people.

“Australia does a great job of having services out there for people who are less privileged or people who need support from the government,” the social worker said.

“I’m out there fighting a good cause and advocating on behalf of the vulnerable in society and then this happens.

“But this morning, I snapped out of it and said, ‘You know what? It can happen to anybody.”

“We can always recover the losses … but it just makes us more conscious of the environment now.”