year yesterday after he admitted to receiving a livery cycle that he knew to have been stolen.

And Leonard Wayne, 31, also faced charges of failing to stop for the Police, driving in a dangerous manner, and stealing a tub of ice-cream from a supermarket.

Wayne, of Mount Wyndam Drive, pleaded not guilty to the traffic offences, but admitted to both dishonesty offences.

Crown counsel Charmaine Smith described how, when Police stopped Wayne last Monday on Serpentine Road, they found the Aprilla cycle he and his pillion passenger were riding to have been stolen.

The cycle, valued at $2,800, was reported missing from a Front Street car park on January 13 by its owner.

Ms Smith noted that Police called Wayne a heroin addict and that he had been in court before on several occasions, the most recent being a 1998 fraud case at which he was found guilty and given a three-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.

Citing that the maximum time Wayne could receive for the most recent offence was 12 months, Magistrate Edward King asked Wayne how much time he thought he should be given.

Wayne said: "If you're going to send me to prison for 12 months, then do that.'' Duty counsel Kevin Bean asked for Mr. King to recommend Wayne be given treatment for his drug problem while at the Westgate Correctional Facility.

Mr. King activated his three-month suspended prison sentence and added on a period of nine months to run consecutively to that.

At this, Wayne changed his original plea of not guilty to stealing a tub of ice cream from the Shelly Bay MarketPlace on September 5.

But he remained steadfast in his denial of the traffic offences of dangerous driving and failing to stop for the Police, for which Wayne was arrested on Monday.

A trial date was set down for February 2 and Mr. King recommended that Wayne enter a treatment programme during his time in prison.