A 20-year-old man who put a stolen bike on Facebook Marketplace has been ordered to pay £385 by magistrates for theft and drug driving.

Maksim Volkov, of High Road, Trimley St. Mary, was caught stealing a pedal cycle in December last year and driving a BMW down Felixstowe Road with drugs in his system last July.

The theft took place on December 12 when the owner left his pedal cycle outside St Felix church on Gainsborough Road, and later noticed it to be missing. 

The court heard the bike, worth around £480, was later found to be on sale on the Facebook marketplace, after which the police were informed and retrieved it.

The 20-year-old was also charged with driving a vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug in his system.

This included Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cocaine. 

In mitigation, his representation said Volkov was feeling his life was "in a downward spiral" and in relation to drug driving had experienced a breakdown in his marriage.

Suffolk Magistrates Court ordered Volkov to pay a fine of £120 for the drug driving and £80 for the theft of the pedal cycle. 

He was further ordered to pay a surcharge of £80 and £105 in costs - bringing his total to £385. 

Volkov has also been disqualified from driving for the next 17 months.