Youth awaits sentence for stealing Parkinson's sufferer's bike

A 17-year-old boy is to be sentenced in September for stealing a Parkinson's disease sufferer's customised bicycle which was used by its owner in a gruelling charity cycle across the United States.

Parkinson's sufferer David Walsh (aged 45) who lives in Dublin had used the same bicycle to cross America last year. The almost 5,000km coast to coast trek from San Diego to New York, which he had spent a year preparing for, helped raise €6,500 for the Parkinson's Association.