A Leigh man has been jailed for 18 months for handling a bike stolen in a robbery which left a man with a dislocated shoulder.

Jordan Roylance, 24, of Leigh Road, pleaded guilty late last year to possessing stolen goods, namely a £3,500 Kawasaki KZ250 which was stolen in a robbery.

Manchester Crown Court heard how on September 29 last year Ryan Bibby was driving the bike from Atherton to Tyldesley when he was shunted by a Mercedes three times in Derby Street, by men in hoods and masks.

Prosecutor Bob Sastry said Mr Bibby was knocked off his bike and suffered a dislocated shoulder, with a co-accused in this case , Connor Hessell, riding the bike away.

Mr Bibby was attended to by local residents that took pictures of the incidents that happened around 3pm in the afternoon.

Police were able to identify Hessell by the pictures, with the bike recovered at his aunties house in Fell Street, Leigh.

Then on October 1 2020 police entered a house in Belmont Road in Hindley where they found Roylance and Hessell and the Mercedes used in the robbery.

Hessell was jailed last November. Prosecutors accept Roylance was not involved in the robbery itself, leading to him pleading guilty to possession of stolen goods, as Hessell had sold him the bike soon after the robbery.

Defending Roylance, Paul Treble, said Roylance “did not know it was taken in a robbery” and that he “accepted the plea” of handling stolen goods.

Roylance had been in custody since November of 2020 and has changed his ways in this time, according to Mr Treble.

“He hasn’t complied with court orders in the past,” Mr Treble said and he has “reflected on it and needs to be with his family”.

Roylance has a two-year-old son and does realise he “needs assistance,” Mr Treble said.

Judge Bernadette Baxter, sentencing Roylance, said: “You are 24-years-old and have a poor but not grave criminal history and in many respects this is one of your more serious offences.

“I accept that you did not know the circumstances in which the motorbike had been stolen.”

Judge Baxter sentenced Roylance to 18 months in jail, almost nine months of which he has already served, and he will soon be released to serve the second half of his sentence on licence.

“If this is a turning point in your life you have the opportunity to take it, but if not you will be found out and you know what is waiting for you ­— longer in custody,” Judge Baxter finished.