A musician has put out a plea after instruments worth more than two thousand pounds were taken from outside his house.

Pedro Kirk, 34, left a tenor saxophone and electric guitar by his front door in Abbey Road, South Wimbledon around 5am on Sunday June 4.

He said he left the instruments there after a gig, at around 5am. When he came back at 9am, they were gone.

The road, between South Wimbledon and Colliers Wood, is a busy street.

Mr Kirk said: "I am studying for my PhD but also play in a wedding band, and just for fun.

"Lots of cars drive down the road at all hours, so I think someone could have driven past and seen them.

"They were my prized possessions."

He says the Yamaha saxophone has been in his family for years and is of particular sentimental value as it was given to him by his first music teacher.

The Gretsch guitar was relatively new, and is a rare "Aspen Green" colour.

Mr Kirk is asking anyone who sees similar instruments being sold to check if they are his.

The guitar was in a black Hiscox hard guitar case, and the saxophone in a "battered-looking" rectangular brown hard case. He says inside the saxophone case are some screwdrivers, a yellow pipe cleaner, and "Vandoren" reeds.

Anyone with information can call the police on 101 and quote crime reference number 30264.