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Car theft gang jailed

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Members of a gang which stole 60 high-value cars have been jailed.

The 14 men, including two from Leicestershire, broke into homes to steal the keys to models including BMWs, Audis and Range Rovers.

The cars were either shipped to Africa or used as getaway vehicles in a series of robberies and burglaries.

Homes were targeted in Belton, Blaby, Braunstone, Church Langton, Desford, Frolesworth, Leicester, Loughborough, Market Harborough and Melton.

Eleven members of the gang were sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday and yesterday.

Three had been dealt with at earlier hearings.

Two men from Leicestershire were sentenced after admitting conspiracy to receive stolen goods.

Nikola Oblakovic, (23), of Woburn Close, Eyres Monsell, Leicester, who was seen driving several of the stolen cars, was jailed for three years and seven months.

Mark Mansfield, (24), of Tuffleys Way, Thorpe Astley, was jailed for two years.

The East Midlands Special Operations Unit ran Operation Pacer, establishing that the gang stole 60 cars, with a total value of £1 million, in 2010 and 2011.

Superintendent Lecky Grewal, said: "More than 1,000 statements were taken from victims and witnesses from as far afield as Redruth and Glasgow, and more than 900 exhibits were seized."


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