James Burns pleaded guilty to two counts of theft at Swansea Magistrates Court
A PORT Talbot man stole a £500 bicycle and sold it for two £10 bags of heroin, a court has heard. James Burns used bolt cutters to steal the expensive Boardman bike, which was chained to railings outside a shop on the town's Station Road.
He has now been banned from touching any bicycle he does not own ahead of his sentencing later this week.
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The 35-year-old was arrested after being spotted stealing another bike from outside the Aberafan shopping Centre. Again he used bolt cutters, which he was carrying in a red gym bag.
He was recognised from CCTV footage and when police went to his home address they found the stolen Scott mountain bike — and Burns hiding in a cupboard.
Burns, of Vivian Court, Port Talbot, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft — one on February 26 and one on March 1 — when he appeared at Swansea Magistrates' Court.
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The court heard the Boardman bike had not been recovered — the defendant told police said he had sold it on to somebody for two £10 bags of heroin.
Steven Harrett, in mitigation, said that after a significant period of being drug-free, his client had relapsed and "slipped back into his old ways" of using heroin.
Magistrates adjourned sentencing to March 11 and released Burns on bail on condition that he does not go to Aberafan shopping centre, and does not touch any bicycle that is not his.
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