Footage of a woman caught on closed circuit television casually stealing four gas cylinders from a house in Marsascala is being circulated online in the hope she can be caught.

With a cigarette in her mouth, the woman is seen opening a gate of a house in Battery Street, walking into the garden and helping herself to the cylinders.

The woman, sporting short hair, sunglasses and wearing what looks like a track suit, left the house to get a white car to load them.

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The theft took place just after 10am on Monday when the elderly owner of the house was in the kitchen.

Her daughter, Angela Mamo, said she posted the CCTV footage on Facebook to raise awareness and warn people to be on the lookout.

The 12-minute clip shows a white Toyota Vitz whizzing past the camera’s field of vision before a woman approaches the house’s gate.

She has some trouble opening the gate, leaves and returns, apparently speaking to someone on her mobile phone.

This time she is successful. She opens the gate and goes into the front garden before disappearing again from the picture. She returns with two yellow cylinders, one in each hand and a cigarette in her mouth, and places them near the gate.

She is then seen in the car, which she parks closer to the gate, before returning to the house to take the cylinders.

A series of thefts and break-ins were solved after the victims posted images and footage on the internet in a bid to identify the perpetrators.

Earlier this month, CCTV footage was uploaded on You Tube, showing a man taking cash from an office at Summit Importers and Distributors in Tal-Balal, limits of San Ġwann.

In a separate incident, security footage uploaded on Facebook showed a man stealing a mobile phone from a Sliema shop.

Last week, two men were caught on CCTV stealing jewellery from Vascas. One of them was apprehended and jailed for 18 months after he admitted in court to having stolen more than €5,000 worth of jewellery from three jewellery shops.