A Pembroke teenager accused of stealing a cycle will be the subject of a social inquiry report after he could not decide what story to stick to.

In Magistrates' Court yesterday Jevon Hill, 19, pleaded guilty to stealing a black Hyundai cycle on July 20 from Bull's Head Car Park. But Hill said he had an explanation for having the cycle.

According to Crown counsel Shakira Dill, the complainant, Jim Fitzsimmons, left the cycle with its keys in the ignition only to find it missing later that day.

Later that month Police stopped Hill while he was driving the stolen cycle. At that time Hill told Police that he had borrowed the bike from a "crack head" but said he did not know the man's name.

Later Hill reworked that story. When he was taken to the Hamilton Police Station, he said that he had found the cycle with the keys in it and had borrowed it to go to his mother's house.

But in court yesterday Hill told Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner another version.

"I borrowed the bike from where I hang, in Middletown to just go to my momma's house," he said "The Police stopped me because the guy on the back didn't have a helmet and that started all this trouble," he told Mr. Warner.

Hill said that his friends whom he was "chilling with" had the bike when he borrowed it.

"I was lying to the Police the first time, and then I told the truth," said Hill, withdrawing claims that he borrowed it from a drug addict.

"All I told Police was that I saw the bike with the keys in it and rode off," he said, claiming that it had already been stolen when he borrowed it.

Warner decided to put off sentencing until a social inquiry report was prepared. Hill, who has no previous convictions, was released on $1,000 bail and will appear again for sentencing on December 30.