A Warwick woman has been left in shock after the police said that her motorcycle, held in Southside Police Station after she was in an accident, had been thrown away by mistake.Shohreh Darooyan said she and her grandfather, retired police sergeant Dudley Proctor, have spent months since her December 25 accident trying to get compensation for her blue Liberty auxiliary cycle. “We keep asking what they’re going to do about it,” Ms Darooyan said. “All they keep saying is that they’ll call back.”On Christmas Day, 19-year-old Ms Darooyan suffered a broken leg in a single-vehicle accident on the Causeway.She was taken to King Edward VII Memorial while her bike, a blue Liberty auxiliary cycle, was collected by police and taken back to the station.“I’d had the bike about a year and a half,” Ms Darooyan said. “It had minor damage. I just slipped on it as I was going around the corner.”However, when she called Southside, she said: “They told me that they accidentally threw the bike away.“I was completely shocked. I wanted to know what they were going to do about it, and they told me to call them back. I got my grandpa to call next.”She said the bike had cost about $4,000 new, and that the carrier had also contained rain gear and other personal items.Her grandfather said: “I have gone to Southside Police Station many times to find out what they’re going to do about it, and I keep getting these silly excuses.”Mr Proctor, who served on the force from 1950 to 1975, said: “I telephoned. I was told the bike had been dumped, thrown overboard they said it had got mixed up with an old cycle there. I told them we expected something to be done about it, but I couldn’t get any answer out of them.”On February 10, he said, police at Southside told him the bike was actually in the back yard.“I went there and they had three officers search in the back but they couldn’t find it.”Mr Proctor wrote a letter to the station on February 24 and said he has called repeatedly, but cannot get an explanation, or compensation from police.“First I was told that one of the police ladies was away on vacation. Then a voicemail message was left on my home phone stating that it would be finished with very shortly.“The message said they had almost completed their report. That was on March 31. That was the last I heard from them.“The bike has been disposed of. It’s their mistake. It’s obvious.”He continued: “They expect the public to cooperate with them, and yet something like this cannot be resolved. I regret that I have had to go to the press. In my 25 years on the police force, nothing like this would ever have happened.”Police at Southside yesterday were unavailable for comment on the matter.