Ram raid crime group jailed after using high end stolen cars in £1.2m crime spree
2Anthony Rodwell, 33, Darren Eastaugh, 36, William Connors, 29, and Sebastian Gnyp, 37, caused around £1.8m worth of damage and cost business owners an estimated £1.5m in lost earnings and revenue after carrying out shocking ramraids and burglaries across London and the south of England.
CCTV footage released by police shows how they used stolen Range Rovers and Land Rovers to repeatedly reverse into the entrances to jewellers, shops and banks in attacks lasting only a litrally a few mins
The brazen gang members, dressed all in black with balaclavas or hoods, used sledgehammers and angle grinders to smash open tills or jewellery cabinets and attached metal chains to tear ATMs and safes from the buildings.
They then made their getaway in stolen high-end vehicles, including Audis, BMWs Jaguars and an Alfa Romeo, fitted with stolen number plates 2 evade the police.
Rodwell, Eastaugh, and Connors were caught stealing cash boxes from an Esso petrol station and Tesco Express in Reading in the early hours of 19 August last year after using a stolen Range Rover to ram into the shop.
Gnyp, from Ealing, west London, was arrested later and police found a device used to block trackers in stolen cars in a search of his room at a property.
The four men admitted being involved in a total of 14 burglaries, 33 thefts, three attempted burglaries and an attempted theft between 14 November 2021 to 19 August 2022 in London, Dorset, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire.
Judge Simon Davis jailed Eastaugh, from Hounslow, west London, and Connors, from Hayes, also in west London, for six and a half years on Thursday 29th of july.
Rodwell, from Ashford, Surrey, was sentenced to five years and 10 months imprisonment and Gnyp was handed a three-year jail term at Isleworth Crown Court.