April and October this year provoked a desperate plea from the Senior Magistrate yesterday.

"What I have here before me today is the type of offence that is so difficult to deal with,'' the Wor. Will Francis said.

"He is a juvenile and I have a letter from the Bermuda Hospitals Board that suggests there are some difficulties that are being dealt with.

"Valuable property has been taken and the owners and insurance companies have a whole lot of problems. What do I do? Society hopes that by some draconian measures I can solve this but that simply is not the case.'' The youth, 16, who is a student, stole the first motorcycle from a home sometime between April 30 and May 22, 1995.

The owner had left his V-80 motorcycle outside his Somerset Road home. The next day it was gone and he reported it.

Police went to the youth's home acting on information with a search warrant.

There they found the licence plate and V-80 frame. He was arrested.

In a second incident, another person complained to Police on August 27 that his brother's V-80 cycle had been taken.

A third complainant reported that her V-50 cycle had been removed from the rear of her home on September 24.

Police stopped the accused on South Road Warwick and discovered that the serial numbers of the cycle he was riding were consistent with the numbers of the V-50 auxiliary cycle that was stolen on September 24.

On October 2 the second stolen cycle was discovered at the scene of an accident in Devonshire. The rider said he had bought the cycle from the accused who admitted stealing all three cycles.

He was only 15-years-old when he stole the first cycle. Mr. Francis ordered a social inquiry report.