A ‘”WANTED’” burglar who seriously injured himself as he tried to steal a valuable off-road motorbike has been jailed again for 20 months.

Robert Fairweather, 24, had been riding the machine without any lights after he and his accomplices had broken into the garage of a house in Rawdon in January.

Prosecutor Andrew Horton told Bradford Crown Court that after the gang had carried out the early evening burglary Fairweather rode off on the machine, worth about £6,000, and collided with a Ford Focus on nearby Canada Road.

Fairbrother’s barrister Sophie Drake said the collision caused significant injuries including fractures to his leg, ribs and pelvis.

Although Fairweather spent two months in hospital his leg, which had to be pinned in various places, had not healed properly.

Miss Drake said her client had not been taken to hospital appointments while on remand at HMP Leeds.

She said an open wound on the leg was not being dressed and her client felt he was being “neglected”.

At the time of the Rawdon burglary Fairweather was wanted in connection with a break-in at a house in Greencroft Close in Bradford which he committed in November - within weeks of being released from a 41-month jail sentence for wounding.

Back in December 2014 Fairweather, who was living at Delius Avenue, Ravenscliffe at the time, was jailed for his role in an attack on a man who suffered a fractured skull and other injuries.

Bradford Crown Court heard that Fairweather, who admitted offences of burglary and using a motor vehicle without insurance and otherwise than in accordance with a licence, had already been recalled on his lengthy prison sentence.

Mr Horton said Fairweather was linked to the Bradford house burglary by blood he left on a kitchen tile.

Miss Drake said her client was realistic about his position.

She said he knew that an immediate prison sentence would have to be imposed.

Fairweather’s 20-month sentence has to run alongside his existing recall sentence.

That sentence was not due to expire until December 2018, the court was told.

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