adjournment.

Lorenzo Toronto MacDonald Darrell had pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to receiving a stolen Peugeot scooter, driving while disqualified, and failing to stop for Police.

Crown counsel Leslie Basden told Pusine Judge Richard Ground on Monday that Darrell, 33, of Random Lane, Warwick, was seen riding by Police about 1.30 a.m. on December 8, 1996 on Middle Road, Southampton.

Darrell made a U-turn in the middle of the road, and tried to escape but was stopped by Police a short distance away.

He was issued with tickets and the cycle was impounded for safe keeping that morning.

Later that day Kevin Abbott reported his red Peugeot scooter, licence number 703T, had been stolen from outside his friend's home on Woodlawn Road, Sandys Parish. He said he had been working there all day and the cycle was stolen sometime before 10 p.m. on December 7.

The cycle Darrell had been riding was checked and discovered to be Abbott's.

After Ms Basden read out the maximum sentences for the offences, Darrell stood and asked that the sentencing be delayed because he said he was appealing his conviction.

"I don't know if you are aware of it,'' he added.

There was a short adjournment to check on whether the court had received the document and whether it had been filed within the required ten days of the conviction.

While the court did not have any record of the appeal, Mr. Justice Ground noted that the prisons confirmed that Darrell had filed it.

"No courts know about it,'' he told Darrell. "The prisons say that you did file it.

"So you are going to have to refile it. I accept that you filled in that form (in the required time).'' Sentencing was adjourned, pending the appeal.