A teenager died after riding on a stolen motorbike which crashed as its driver tried in ‘desperation’ to get away from the victim of a burglary who was pursuing them, a jury has heard. Callum Duncan, 28, stored three motorbikes in a shed at his home in Reddish, Stockport. Minshull Street Crown Court heard that in the early hours of January 24, 2023, three burglars broke into his shed. The householder, Mr Duncan, was woken by the noise and gave chase in his car as the trio fled on the stolen bikes. Dean Barnes, 16, who was riding as a pillion passenger on one of the stolen bikes, died in a subsequent crash as Mr Duncan pursued. Mr Duncan and Adam Norman, 36, who was driving the stolen bike which Barnes was riding on, are both on trial accused of causing death by dangerous driving. They both deny the offence. Norman and another man, Alexander Riley, 21, have both admitted burglary. Prosecuting, Phil Barnes said there was ‘no room for doubt’ that Dean Barnes was the third burglar. Mr Barnes said: “It would be wrong of any of us to presume Dean Barnes was an angel.” The prosecutor said the origin of the case was a crime which would ‘cost him his life’. Barnes, Norman and Riley went out in the early hours to commit a burglary at a house in Harewood Grove, Reddish, jurors were told. They knew bikes were stored in a shed after seeing one for sale on Facebook Marketplace, and someone had gone to look at the area, it was said. A drill and bolt croppers were used to break into the shed, at about 6.30am that morning. Barnes took a small Yamaha PW50, commonly known as a ‘Pee Wee’, Riley rode a larger Kawasaki and Norman took the largest bike, a white and black Husqvarna. Mr Barnes said that the Husqvarna belonged to Mr Duncan, and the two other bikes belonged to his family and friends. Having heard the break-in, Mr Duncan gave chase in his Golf GTI. Shortly after realising they were being chased, Barnes left the ‘Pee Wee’ behind and got on the back of the Husqvarna with Norman. Riley fled down Wharfdale Road. Mr Duncan was travelling at up to 36mph in a 20mph zone and was seen to ‘bounce’ over speed bumps, the court heard. He was closing the gap on the bike being driven by Norman. Riley turned right onto Gorton Road. Mr Barnes said that Norman instead tried to ride straight, across two lanes of traffic, onto Ainsdale Grove, a residential road opposite. “Sadly for Dean Barnes, Adam Norman didn’t make it,” Mr Barnes said. The prosecutor said that a female driver ‘doing absolutely nothing wrong’ came along Gorton Road from the left. Norman clipped the woman’s car, and both men fell from the bike. Mr Barnes said Norman was ‘lucky’, and was able to walk away from the crash. But Barnes fell and hit a parked car, and was killed ‘instantly’. Prosecutors claimed that Mr Duncan must have seen the crash happen, but said he did not go to Barnes’ aid. His car is not accused of colliding with the bike being driven by Norman. Mr Barnes said that Mr Duncan took the Husqvarna bike from the scene and brought it to his mother’s house nearby. The ‘Pee Wee’ bike was later also returned to his possession, the court heard. Mr Barnes said Mr Duncan only called the emergency services almost four hours later. He then said he had ‘only just realised how bad it was’. After being arrested shortly after, Mr Duncan replied ‘no comment’ to most questions, but added: “I wasn’t driving dangerously, didn’t do nothing to cause the crash.” Norman went into ‘hiding’ after the crash and was only arrested on June 23, 2023. He replied ‘no comment’ to questions in his police interview, jurors heard. Mr Barnes said of Norman: “In his desperation to get away from the crime he had just committed, he rode that already dangerous bike at a speed which was completely excessive for the road conditions, paying no heed to other traffic, failing to give way at the junction and barrelling through blindly in the vain hope that he would make it to the other side.” Mr Barnes said of Mr Duncan: “It is no defence, we will say to you, for Callum Duncan to plead that he was entitled to drive however he liked in an effort to recover his stolen property. He still owed a duty to all the other road users around him, including those men on his bike. “The standard of driving to which he must be held to account does not change because of the circumstances he was in.” Norman, of no fixed abode but from Brinnington, Stockport, and Mr Duncan, of Salisbury Street in Reddish, both deny causing death by dangerous driving. Norman and Riley, of Blackberry Lane in Brinnington, Stockport, who is not on trial, have pleaded guilty to burglary, the jury was told. Proceeding .