A night out with co-workers quickly turned into a nightmare for a Western PhD student when four years of cancer research was taken from a colleague's car.

Aswin Sureshkumar's laptop and two external hard drives filled with data and scientific analysis were stolen from a car parked outside Palasad South at 141 Pine Valley Blvd. on April 21, between 5:30 and 9:30 p.m.

"I put my bag in the back seat on the bottom area and put my jacket over it just because you always hear about people breaking in," Sureshkumar said. "When I went back, the jacket was thrown to the side, my backpack was gone, and I was like, 'There's no way that this is happening right now.'"

"I just walked home in disbelief."

The day after the laptop was stolen, Sureshkumar filed an online report with London police, who he

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