Stolen bikes

If I was at a pub with my mates bike, and somoene came up and said it was nicked and knew who's it was, and even if I didn't know where my mate had got it from I wouldn't just say sorry and give it back?!
He must surely have known it was nicked in order to be so willing to give it back?

• He knew that a bike had been stolen from the party

• He recognised Rob the guy who came and spoke to us at the pub as being from the party and trusted him when he said that the bike was his housemates.

• He didn't know the bike he was riding was stolen

• Hackney/Dalston/Stoke Newington are not very big places and you would be a complete twat to ride a stolen fixed gear around there.

• I appreciate the sentiments of posting his picture on here as I reckon bike thieves are utter scum, but in this instance its a witchhunt against an innocent guy.

This is a very unfortunate incident where all the fingers point to him but he is actually an innocent guy and I wouldn't be bothering to spend my morning on here at work posting in his defense unless I was 100% certain that he is not a tea leaf. I think you guys should try and take into account the repercussions of posting someones picture on the internet under the heading of thief as that is very tarnishing to someones Identity and could amount to something off-net happening that doesn't need to.

I don't anything more needs to be said on the subject to be honest. I would expect any decent guy to do what i have done and stick up for his friend when he is being falsely accused so please lets go back to finding real thieves and reporting on stolen bikes as this is all becoming a waste of space in this thread when more important posts could be getting overlooked.