Man jailed for stealing a bike at 17 is still in prison 12 years later metro.co.uk

A man who was jailed for punching someone and stealing their bike when he was 17 is still waiting to be released more than 12 years later. In that time Wayne Bell, 22, has watched rapists and murderers go in and out of prison. His dad Carl Bell said: ‘He just hit someone and took their bike. The sentence really doesn’t fit the crime. ‘He’s never had a girlfriend. He’s never had a life at all really. There are probably kids who have done the same as him but they’re now married and have their own kids. ‘It looks like he’ll never have that chance. All his friends are married now and bringing up kids, even the ones who were giving him all that peer pressure at the time they were growing up.’