Brian Taylor’s car stolen in robbery at Fitzroy home

Burglars broke into the Fitzroy home of Brian Taylor as he and his family slept, with his sons later giving chase and making a citizen’s arrest.

Brian Taylor and his wife Tania were home at the time of the break in.

Brian Taylor has revealed his family were the victims of a home invasion in Fitzroy.

Taylor and wife Tania were asleep, with sons Harrison and Jesse also in the home, when they realised they’d been robbed in the middle of the night last weekend.

Harrison said he’d been out and got home just after 11.30pm.

“The next thing I know (mum) comes into my room … saying someone’s stolen all our keys, dad’s car’s gone, my handbag’s gone,’’ Harrison said on the Life of Brian podcast.

Brian Taylor’s Toyota Landcruiser Sahara was stolen, along with Jesse’s wallet, a bunch of sneakers and a push bike.

“Everyone is up in bed and all of the keys to all of the cars have gone and only one car has physically gone and we had a sense they’d come back for all of the cars,’’ Brian Taylor said.

“We hid in ambush at three o’clock in the morning, peering around corners waiting for someone to come back with the key fob and press unlock.

Taylor recovered his truck after it was dumped half a kilometre from his home.

“It was a strange ute that pulled up in the street and hovered around there.”

Harrison said while Tania was on the phone reporting the incident to police, he and Jesse took off down the street chasing the ute, eventually making citizen’s arrest before the man offered up an alibi and argued he wasn’t at the scene.

“The amber lights went off and Jesse and I immediately went sprinting out to the car … Jesse legged it after the guy down Brunswick Street and I went down Johnston Street and we met up just after the 7-Eleven there,’’ he said.

“He did have an alibi and I don’t think he’s the guy, although I’m still suspicious.”

Brian got his car back the next day, it was abandoned 600m down the road.

He said his dilemma now is whether to leave the keys on the table or take them into the bedroom.

“The question is would we and should we leave all of our keys on the kitchen table so that if someone invades our privacy again, they can just take the keys and the cars and therefore they don’t stab us.

“Or do we take the keys and put them in the bedroom with each individual and therefore they will come into the bedroom to steal the keys next time. It is a bit of a quandary.”

He added: “Jesse had his cards used at 7-Eeleven across Melbourne. Lots of inconvenience. Credit cards, licences, probably got 20 or 30 different cards that need to be replaced. It’s a big inconvenience but we move on and we all learn.”