The edited sequence shows the car with the registration 'BI GAY' at Pink Punters, Fenny Stratford, being set alight.

The video shows the arsonist, who arrives at the scene by bicycle, stuff a rag in the grill between the bonnet and the windscreen and pours petrol over the car's bonnet before setting light to the rag.

The attack, which took place at 10.43am last Thursday, took place in full view of the traffic travelling on the Watling Street and another man, who police believe is an accomplice, witnessed the whole episode from the other side of the road.

Coincidentally, within two minutes a police car passing by notices the flames and thick black smoke and quickly turns round and pulls into the car park where he is met by Pink Punters boss Frank McMahon, who owns the Range Rover.

A fire appliance arrived at 10.52am and it took more than an hour and a half to extinguish the blaze.

A police spokesman yesterday confirmed no-one has been arrested in connection with the incident which is being treated as a 'hate crime'.