A man has been handed a suspended jail term after being caught by police as he arrived to retrieve a stolen Audi.
Nabriel Kassim, 32, was found guilty after a trial of handling stolen goods.
Kirklees Magistrates’ Court heard that the vehicle was stolen in a burglary at a home in Holmfirth in the early hours of January 19.
On February 3 police received information that the same vehicle was in a car park near an Indian Restaurant on Sheepridge Road in Bradford.
Jill Seddon, prosecuting, said: “Police were requested to recover the vehicle when the defendant walked towards the car and pressed the keys to unlock it.
“He realised that police were stood nearby and tried to walk off.
“The defendant said: ‘I’ve been asked to pick it up, I haven’t robbed it’.”
Kassim admitted that he’d thought that something was not right about the vehicle after seeing makeup inside it.
The Huddersfield court heard that the car was worth more than £10,000.
Kassim, of The Ladle in Middlesbrough, said that he was invited to come down and collect the vehicle but later had suspicions about it when he got to Dewsbury.
He was sentenced to six months in prison suspended for a year.
Kassim has to complete 160 hours of unpaid work and comply with a friend 10-week curfew.
He must also pay £620 court costs and £80 victim surcharge.
