This is the moment a restaurant says proves a diner placed hair in his food in a bid to avoid having to pay for a meal.

Police are searching for 11 customers who left without paying their £200 bill at Steakhouse Harrow, in Station Road, on February 15, at 9.22pm.

The video shows one of the men in the group pull out hair from his pocket and place it on a fellow diner’s plate while they were eating.

A waiter was called over to inspect the plate, but the rest of the group got up from their tables and left without waiting for the food to be replaced.

If you have any information, call police on 101 and quote crime reference number 2002063/17