A gang of criminals has been jailed for a total of 11 years after they stole£20,000 (8 million Naira) worth of Jammie Dodgers biscuits.
Gang of thieves jailed for stealing 8 million Naira worth of biscuits
And the biscuits were never recovered
Gang of thieves jailed for stealing 8 million Naira worth of biscuits
Five men, Paul Price, 35, Keiron Price, 28, Aaron Walsh, 25, Stephen Burrows, 36, and Anthony Edgerton, 35, all pleaded guilty to biscuit theft.
The five-man gang stole the biscuits from a factory in South Wales after tricking a security guard by pretending to be a DHL deliverymen.
They then swapped a stolen empty trailer for one that was full of biscuits.
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Although police later found the stolen trailer dumped on a roadside, not one crumb of biscuit was inside.
Their sentences ranged from 12 months to 44 months.
And the biscuits were never recovered.
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