Footage captures the ruthless Greater Manchester-based gang who attacked police and caused mayhem across UK
It was 4.15am and two men arrived in a black BMW outside the Co-op in Ellenbrook, Worsley. They were joined by another in a Transit van stolen hours earlier from Burtonwood, Cheshire.
The gang would then flee the scene in one of three stolen cars - two BMWs and a Golf R-type, which had been taken via a house burglary in Worsley. The van would be abandoned in situ. "In that attack they got away with £34,800. This began our involvement and led to some amazing detective work by our local policing unit. This was a large amount of money to be stolen - a really violent offence.
This was the gang's "stable" - what the criminals thought was their safe location to keep their stolen cars - a lockup garage - one in a row - next to housing. It was local authority owned, but there had not been an owner of that garage for five years. The gang would check the getaway cars in the garage to make sure they had sufficient fuel as their crime spree took them into 12 different counties. In the cars, the gang carried jerry cans full of extra fuel and false number plates.
The gang were then followed as they moved south to the former mining village of Moira in Derbyshire in a stolen BMW. Once in the vicinity they tried to steal a Transit van but it broke down, and they stole a second. Such was the mindset of the gang even when they failed to get the cash at the Moira store they had to steal something - so took a box of Minature Heroes chocolates, which was also found in the car.
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