A “MOMENT of madness” could cost a Merseyside police officer a promising career.
PC John Atkinson, 25, appeared before a court yesterday charged with handling stolen goods and, if found guilty, is looking at a career in tatters.
Atkinson, who is currently suspended from frontline duties, was at Warrington crown court for the start of a two-day trial.
He denies dishonestly receiving racing bikes belonging to former Great Britain rider Jacqui Marshall, knowing they were stolen and then tried to sell them back to her.
Jonathan Austin, prosecuting, told the court that a custom-made track racing bike and a carbon-fibre road bike, worth a total of around £4,000, belonging to Miss Marshall were stolen from the back of her father’s car when it was parked outside the Lymm Hotel, in Cheshire, on November 12, 2007.
Four days later, Atkinson, who has served in north Liverpool for the last four years, was arrested at the Lymm service station, at the junction of the M6 and M56, with the bikes in the back of his silver BMW.
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