Exeter motorcycle fan............... with other peoples bikes
An Exeter motorcycle fan was found with four stolen machines in his lock up garage after police used a tracker device to find a brand new Kawasaki.
Arron Callard had already done so much work to disguise the £13,000 Ninja superbike in the space of a few hours that it was damaged beyond repair.
There were three other motorcycled in the lock up in Exeter which were worth a further £9,000 between them.
Callard, aged 23, of Grendon Road, Exeter, admitted handling and was jailed for ten months, suspended for two years, and ordered to do 150 hours unpaid community work by Assistant Judge Advocate Alan Large at Exeter Crown Court.
He told him:"The people who had their bikes stolen are entitled to think that those who are involved in handling them are treated seriously.
"They have suffered upset and inconvenience and have lost machines which were their pride and joy. As a motorcycle fan you should appreciate that more than anyone else."
Mr Sean Brunton, prosecuting, said a brand new Kawasaki Ninja stolen from its owner's home in Beacon Lane, Exeter on March 25 was fitted with a tracker device which enabled the police to find it at a lock up in Hamilton Avenue.
Callard had rented the garage under a false name but was traced and three other bikes found with the Kawasaki were also found to be stolen.
All were in the process of being stripped or disguised and they had a total value of £22,430. The Kawasaki was already so damaged it was written off by the insurers.
He said the owners of the bikes included a plasterer, factory worker, and road mender, and all suffered financial loss and inconvenience from the thefts.
He said Callard was close to whoever had taken the machines and formed part of a chain in which they were being prepared for sale.
Mr Peter Seigne, defending, said Callard now has a job and the chance to turn his life around after a background of being in trouble for similar offences.
He said:"When he gets down, motorcycles are like an addiction to him. He uses them to feed that addiction."
What can one say........ten months, suspended for two years, and ordered to do 150 hours unpaid community work.................. anyone who has had a bike Go missing an know's how sick you feel to lose a bike in this way this is the kind of pond scum to look out for. An who ever was doing the bike lifting is not far away from him friend wise as well seeing as he did not offer them up to the old bill............
So that's the sentence for a bike thief with previous?? Good job it wasn't his first offence - they'd probably have given him a thank you note and a nice bag of sweets. ..........
Like He's not going to have any 5 years back looks like he's moved on from pedal power and is what is know as a light fingered thieving git I'm not going to dig deeper as it will just give me the hump for the rest of the day................................................................
Arron Callard 2010
A TEENAGER who said he committed crime because he is "bored" has been electronically tagged.
Arron Callard, 18, of Commercial Road, Exeter, admitted being found with orange bolt croppers in connection with theft, on Friday, July 2, in Prince Charles Road.
Prosecutor Lindsey Baker said police spotted Callard while they were looking for a suspect for criminal damage. He was walking past a no entry sign into St Katherine's Road.
The officers searched him and found a pair of 14 inch bolt croppers in his bag.
He first told officers that he was walking home from his mother's house in Whipton, but then admitted he had them to commit crime because he was bored.
Mitigating, Peter Seigne said Callard went out from his mother's home to find a bike to steal so that he could cycle home.
He said Callard has the opportunity to sign up to a training scheme in the near future.
Magistrates told Callard that they were concerned that he expressed the view that he was bored.
They told him: "This is your life and your one chance. If you don't take this you will be back and forth to court and what kind of a life is that."
They put him on a curfew for three months from 8pm to 7am.
"This is your life and your one chance. If you don't take this you will be back and forth to court and what kind of a life is that." Looks like he's game for it keep your bikes locked an chained two the floor. and looks like he's in to gun's as well.......................................
Arron Callard, 20, of Ludwell Lane, Exeter, failed to attend an appointment as directed on March 18 and failed to behave appropriately during supervision on March 21 as part of a community order. He pleaded guilty and was fined £80 with a £20 victim surcharge.
Arron Callard , 20, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to damaging the driver's door and interior of a car belonging to a man without lawful excuse between January 13 and January 15. He also admitted assisting in the retention, disposal or realisation of stolen goods, namely a moped worth £800, on January 23, and failing to comply with the requirements of a supervision order by committing an offence. He was sent to a young offender institution for 21 days.
Arron Callard,@ 21, of Bennett Square, Exeter, pleaded guilty to possession of ammunition for a firearm having been a person who had been sentenced to a term of three months or more in prison in the last five years. He was given a 12-month conditional discharge and must pay £50 costs and a £15 victim surcharge. An order was made for the ammunition to be destroyed
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And we worry about having a number plate 2" to small........
"When he gets down, motorcycles are like an addiction to him. He uses them to feed that addiction." Now I can understand that- difference is I ride MY OWN bikes that I worked bloody hard to purchase - maybe I shouldn't bother and like him just nick one? I work far more than 150 hours a year for free (TAX) to pay the way for scum like him to 'get bored' so perhaps the judge would consider that advance payment should I get nicked......
If I caught anyone trying to nick anything from my gaff I'd break there fecking legs as chances are the 'law' (I don't blame the old bill who Im sure get a pissed off with this as us) would do sod all regarding them and hopefully just give me a light ticking off as it appears they seem to do for most crimes these days
Maybe I could say I have a leg breaking addiction by way of defence as well?
Nah JT, he tripped when running away and in the fall broke both his legs and knocked 2 teeth out. I know this as I happened to be walking by at the time & saw the whole thing officer.
I suppose the up side is he got caught and then "named and shamed"! I do think though punishment needs to be a set of bright red over halls and the wording 'i am a bored bike thieve' printed on it and then Made to wash bikes at bike meets for a year and then followed by two years of national service!
