A man who was caught stealing a motorbike after the owner parked it on the road and went inside a store was sentenced to nine months in prison.

The sentence was handed down by Judge Pusey last Friday in court after 23-year-old Trevin Barrett pleaded guilty to larceny of a motorbike.

Facts presented to the court were that on January 3, the complainant parked his motorbike on Slipe Road in Kingston and went inside a furniture store to conduct business. On leaving the store, he saw a man pushing away his bike and he gave chase.

The complainant was assisted by a soldier and they caught the man, who turned out to be Barrett, and summoned the police.

Last Friday after Barrett pleaded guilty, the judge asked him: “Any reason why I shouldn’t send you to prison for five years today for stealing the man’s bike?

Barrett, after taking quite a while to respond, said: “A the first me do something like this, so me a beg you kindly to make some way out for me.”

But the judge did not take kindly to his request.

“Don’t ask me to make something work out for you like we are in some conspiracy,” she told him.

“A bike is not food or raiment, it’s the man livelihood. If the man and the soldier did not catch you, the man would not have any work now and you, ’bout me must make something work out for you. Nonsense!” she said.

She further asked him if he had anything of substance to tell her and he said: “I am sorry.”

Following Barrett’s apology, he was then sentenced to nine months in prison.