Man tried to sell stolen bike to owner

A known Dublin criminal who tried to sell a stolen motorbike to undercover gardaí has been jailed for two years.

Gardaí set up a sting after Derek Hutch (24) showed the motorbike, by chance, to its original owner two months after it had been stolen.

Michael Heffernan met Hutch, of Chapel Farm Avenue, Lusk to view the bike but quickly suspected it was his own vehicle, though altered, and called gardaí.

Garda Trevor Duggan told Marie Torrens, prosecuting, that Hutch tried to sell gardaí the bike for €4,200 when they went back after having confirmed it was stolen.

Hutch pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possessing the stolen bike on September 8th, 2007.