Race Across the World winner Alfie Watts’ laptop stolen in Cardiff

Race Across the World winner Alfie Watts has described his “enormous frustration” at having his car broken into and laptop stolen while on a school tour.

His device contained presentations he uses in his talks with young people about positivity, resilience and mental health.

Watts, 22, said he had parked and left his vehicle for about 20 minutes when an opportunist smashed a window and found the laptop bag under his seat at Howard Place, Cardiff, on Tuesday night.

“I honestly reckon someone is just like 50-50, either there’s something in there for me to take or there isn’t,” he said.

Watts said the crime was “a low point” following two other unrelated thefts in the past two months.

The material on his laptop was backed up on the internet so the theft did not affect three scheduled talks from going ahead on Wednesday, including at Mount Stuart Primary School in Cardiff Bay.

Watts faced challenges but no thefts while on his way to winning series four of the BBC’s Race Across the World, travelling in excess of 9,300 miles (15,000km) across eastern Asia with his friend Owen Wood.

“I know it’s not an indictment of the people of Wales, and particularly not the city of Cardiff,” he said.

“It’s just an enormous frustration.”