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Cycle Hoops - what socket or tool fits them

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ScumOfTheRoad:
A friend has locked her bicycle in Hackney and lost the key. It is locked to one of those O-shaped cycle hoops on a pole.

I am assuming that some type of socket can be used to remove the hoop.
I have a set of Torx keys with a hole in the middle, up to T50 size.  I doubt though they are the correct thing.

Cudzoziemiec:
Can she take a photo for you?

I would hope, but not expect, that it would be a proprietary fitting precisely to prevent people doing what you're planning.

ScumOfTheRoad:
I did a bit of searching, and also zoomed into an image on the cyclehoop website. Indeed it does seem to be a special fitting.

Feanor:
Is it not also likely that even if you can remove the hoop from the pole, that will not 'open' the loop?
Even with the correct tool, it looks like will come apart into a pair of 'half' loops; closed D-shaped things which would still have the lock trapped.
And anyways, you'd still have the lock through the frame and probably at least one wheel.

Time to cut the lock, I think.
Mr Angle Grinder can make a persuasive argument.

ScumOfTheRoad:
Thanks bot for answers. I believe the key is being sought high and low.
One wag suggests briniging in the expertise of the Dalston Bike Thief on commission.

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