Thief jailed after stealing police officer’s bike
Officer bike belonged to was attending West Yorkshire Police training seminar in Leeds city centre when Christopher Hall stole itA serial bike thief who used the proceeds of the sale of the bikes he stole to fund his drug habit has been jailed for 12 months after stealing a bicycle that turned out to belong to a police officer attending a conference in Leeds. that Christopher Hall, aged 39, cut through the lock of the £400 bike, which had been parked near the Trinity Leeds shopping centre.
He was arrested after being seen on Fish Street throwing away items stowed in bags on the bike, with a search of his own bag leading to the discovery of the bolt-croppers he had used to cut the lock of the stolen bike, and he was also found to be in possession of what was described as a small quantity of cannabis.
Speaking in mitigation on behalf of Hall, defence counsel Laurence Dilworth said: “He has a long-standing issue with substance misuse but he accepts it's no justification for these offences.” Hall’s latest conviction triggered a six-month suspended prison sentence handed down to him last October for a non-domestic burglary, to which the judge added a further six months in relation to the offences for which he was standing trial, for a total of 12 months’ imprisonment.We’ve noticed you’re using an ad blocker. If you like road.cc, but you don’t like ads, please consider subscribing to the site to support us directly. As a subscriber you can read road.
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