CCTV man catches bike thief who stole his own bike!

29Aug08

Aww, opportunist bike thief picked the wrong bike…!

This came from the Kent & Sussex Courier this week:-

“A TUNBRIDGE Wells man with learning difficulties who claimed he had been able to steal a bike after cutting a padlock with guitar string clippers was given a conditional discharge this week.

David Warren, 30, of Rusthall Grange, admitted taking the bike after feeling unwell while walking home from an evening’s drinking on June 25.

The bike belonged to a Tunbridge Wells CCTV operator, who then saw it chained to a bike rack in Lime Hill Road a day after reporting it stolen.

The police, having been informed of the bike’s whereabouts, lay in wait nearby but were seen by Warren as he approached and he managed to get away. He was identified using CCTV pictures however and was subsequently arrested.

In mitigation, defence solicitor Andrew Main said Warren had intended to return the bike and had run to the town’s police station after fleeing the scene.

He even tried to tell officers what he had done using the yellow phone outside the station, Mr Main said, but had been told to “go away”.

Mr Main asked the magistrates to be lenient on his client, saying he believes he is due to start a photography course at university next month.

“It is an unfortunate case,” he said, “and I know it’s one that Mr Warren deeply regrets.”

The magistrates gave Warren a conditional discharge for a two-year period, and ordered him to pay £60 costs by way of deductions from his benefit at the minimum rate.

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Bike Thief Left Behind a Clue – His Bike

29Aug08

THIEF who stole a girl’s bicycle left behind a very good clue — his own bike.

This one came from the South Devon.co.uk (it was a story in July):-

The bizarre theft occurred in the quiet village of Teigngrace, near Newton Abbot, and has left a family annoyed, and puzzled.

Yasmin Kassiri’s purple Gypsy machine was left in the garden overnight on the weekend of July 12, close to the popular Templer Way cycle and pedestrian route.

Mum Lorraine discovered it had gone in the morning, but that a Silver Fox, a man’s cycle, had mysteriously appeared on the lawn.

Lorraine said: “It is really weird. We can only assume that somebody cycling past spotted Yasmin’s bike, although it would have been difficult to see from the path, rode off on it, leaving their own behind.

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