It has been reported that a Love Island couple - who met on this summer's series -have had a sex tape stolen from them following a robbery at a petrol station in Peterborough.

Axar.az reports according to the Mirror, the sexually explicit video was taken from the pair's publicist's car at the motorway service station and Police are said to be investigating the incident.

The couple had given publicist Rob Cooper the footage - which was made in August - and in the wake of the theft he has offered a financial reward for its safe return.

Discussing the devastating theft, Rob told the publication that the laptop and three SD cards - which held the footage - were left on the passenger side of his car in a laptop sleeve when they were taken.

At the time, he was speaking to another client on the phone, via handsfree, when he pulled into the service station and spent 10 minutes away from his car.

When he returned back to his car, he noticed that the door was left 'slightly jarred open' but didn't think too much of it as his Louis Vuitton backpack was still on the back seat.

However, it wasn't until he arrived home that he noticed that the laptop sleeve and its contents had been stolen.

MailOnline have contacted Rob Cooper for comment.

The publicist claimed that the reality couple wanted to release the footage 'on the condition it was worth more than 100k' and had been in the process of talking to Vivid Entertainment, who released Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton's sex tapes.

'Since that day, the card has not left my side unless they have been locked in a car or a safe,' Rob told the publication. 'If the images get into the wrong hands, they could be uploaded online, that's why we've decided to make it public and offer a generous reward for their safe return of the individually coded bag.

'The images are worthless to anyone who may have them, they are classed as stolen goods and if the images were to be uploaded then the vendor is committing revenge porn, which is obviously illegal.'

He added: 'The footage was filmed by the couple in early August, it was filmed in an amateur manner with the intent to be marketed around the world via the internet.'

Rob - who is putting half of the reward up with the couple - has placed a reward of £25,000 which will be paid in one single payment if the seal on the card has not been broken.

Yet if the contents have been tampered with he will make a first payment of £10,000 with three additional yearly payments of £5,000 as long as the footage doesn't end up on the internet.

Rob added that he has prepared the revealed the couple had made their families aware of the situation and prepared them in advance in case the intimate footage is leaked.