A serial bike thief who targeted bicycles left at a train station in West Sussex has given a conditional discharge but ordered to pay compensation totalling nearly £2,700 to his victims.
Derrik Roye, aged 50 and from Croydon, targeted bikes left at Haywards Heath train station in West Sussex, reports The Argus.
The station, operated by Southern Rail, is one of the busiest for commuters in the south east, and has a dedicated Cycle Hub with parking spaces for 300 bicycles.
Between October and November 2019, he stole four bicycles there as well as the wheels from another bike, Brighton Magistrates’ Court heard.
The first bike he stole, on 21 October and left at the station by the woman who owned it, was worth £799.
He stole another bike, worth £800, on 12 November and three days later stole another won there, valued at £250. The same day he also stole a pair of wheels worth £500 from a bike at Horley train station.
The final theft was on 18 November, when he returned to Haywards Heath station, this one worth £330.
Initially, Roye entered a not guilty plea, but he admitted the charges in court.
He was given a conditional discharge – an order under which an offender will not be sentenced for an offence unless a further offence is committed within a stated period and ordered to pay compensation totalling £2,679 to his victims.
Correction - the Tory Govt is doing sweet fa afaik. The Scots and Welsh devolved Govts have projects. The English one run is by a think tank...
Is it that only one of them spent £850m of the Treasury's money to increase Covid-19 infections by between 8% and 17% with a ludicrous "Eat Out to...
The Dauphine heads into real mountains in the next few days, I can't see Vingegaard sticking with 50 x 33 low gear for those. We will see....
Yeah, it's an implied contract whereby we provide cast-iron video evidence and the police prosecute them.
https://road.cc/category/review-section/accessories/helmets There's a bit in there about how we test helmets, if you're interested.
Exactly - admitting that is an admission of guilt, not a mitigating circumstance, IMO.
Riding a bicycle in a "prohibited area": £220 fine plus £226 costs and a £58 victim surcharge....
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They'd better make you lightening fast 'cause for sure I wouldn't want to be seen in these ugly ducklings.
Good reason to fit banned motorists with gps tracker cuffs for the duration of their bans. The cost of provision and monitoring could be recovered...