A thief who stole an electric bicycle from the headquarters of Greater Manchester Police and rode away on it has been handed a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to theft.
He was accompanied by another man and the pair each took an electric bikes from a dedicated cycle parking area. Roger Brown, prosecuting, said that the pair “went towards the custody suite, to the side of that was the pedal station, where a number of bikes were kept. In connection with the theft of the e-bike, which happened on 2 August this year, he was given a 12-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, and was also ordered to undertake 120 hours of unpaid work and to attend a 12-month drug rehabilitation programme as well as a thinking skills rehabilitation programme.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.