Man fined after stealing eight wheelbarrows from B&Q
Published: 8 May 2017 - Jenny Wonnacott
A man who was caught wheeling eight wheelbarrows across the road in the early hours of the morning said that he found them abandoned by a canal and that he intended to sell them at a car boot sale.
A member of the public called the police when they spotted the offender and another man with the eight wheelbarrows near B&Q Dewsbury
Richard Knowles of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, was recently fined by Huddersfield magistrates after pleading guilty to stealing the barrows from B&Q in Dewsbury, Kirklees. He and another man were spotted near the Wilton Street store at 5am on March 12.
Prosecutor Bill Astin said: “[The wheelbarrows] had gone missing from the yard attached to the B&Q store which was surrounded by high fencing. A member of the public saw the men wheeling the wheelbarrows across the road and, given the time and where it was, thought this was suspicious and called police.”
Mr Knowles had claimed that he found the wheelbarrows by the Ribble Canal and wanted to sell them on. He was fined £80 and ordered to pay £85 costs and £30 victim surchage.