Prolific Cambridge bike and shop thief who tried to sell £2,200 bicycle for £50 is jailed

A prolific Cambridge bike and shop thief has been jailed for nine months.

Stephen Foot, 25, of no fixed address, was sentenced at Cambridge Magistrates’ Court last Thursday (March 8) after pleading guilty to bike theft, common assault, criminal damage, possession of a knife, attempted shop theft and 12 counts of shop theft.

Foot stole a Nihola cargo bike worth £2,200 from Luard Road in Cambridge on February 9 and attempted to sell it on for just £50 when he was arrested by police.

Between January 19 and February 28 he stole perfume, meat, coffee, computer game equipment and washing powder worth more than £1,400 from John Lewis, Co-Op, The Perfume Shop, Levi’s, Game and a BP garage.

PC Rob Tindall said: “Foot is an opportunist thief who has caused misery to many businesses and individuals with his prolific offending. Cambridge city is a safer place while he is in prison and we hope he uses this time to turn his life around.”