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Bait-bikes work well in York, but thieves let off with fine and suspended sentences:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/7455310.Thief_Jason_Ian_Coolledge_stole_bike_at_University_of_York_belonging_to_the_police/
"Officers were able to track down their property and the thief was caught and taken before York Crown Court because he was on a suspended prison sentence imposed for injuring a baby on its head.
"She said the thefts were minor offences. Coolledge had taken the bicycle with a view to selling it for parts."
See this also, again no jail time:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/5066276.York_bike_thief_snared_in_police_sting/
"police walked in on him later the same day as he was respraying it black at his Huntington Road home in a bid to prevent its owner recognising it. He had two other bicycles, one of which had also been resprayed"