Anglesey, Gwalchmai,North Wales - Man stole £14,000 in £1 coins from Anglesey bus company

Edward McDonagh stole £14,000 in £1 coins from Eifion’s Coaches in Gwalchmai

• 14 DEC 2015
• BY ELWYN ROBERTS

The coins, which would have weighed 21 stone, were put in a bank account and used to buy a car after the burglary

A North Wales bus company’s premises were burgled...and £14,000 in £1 coins were stolen from the safe.

Later, the coins – which would have weighed 21 stone – were paid into a bank account and used to buy a car, Mold Crown Court was told.

Edward McDonagh, 27, and his partner Natalie Tregillies, 23, a mother of three, admitted a money laundering charge.

The court heard that the money was paid into Edward McDonagh’s account following the burglary at Eifion’s Coaches in Gwalchmai in 2013.

Co-defendant Martin McDonagh, 27, admitted burglary at the Jones Brothers site office at Llangefni Industrial Estate.

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Prosecuting barrister Brett Williamson told Mold Crown Court today how some CCTV cameras had been smashed, others had been pointed upstairs, and the recording equipment stolen.

Fuel had been siphoned from a vehicle and key ring torches had been stolen. Martin McDonagh was arrested after his DNA was found on an improvised funnel used to steal the fuel.

Torches were found at his caravan home.

Edward McDonagh and Martin McDonagh also admitted a joint affray following an incident in Pool Street in Caernarfon in August of last year.

The court heard the two men got out of a car and chased a teenager.

One was said to have a baseball bat, but the defence claimed it was a cardboard roll.

The defendants were all said to be living in caravans on the site of the old Minffordd Hospital near Bangor at the time, but are now living in the Manchester area.

Tregillies was placed on a 12-month community order for the money laundering charge.

Edward McDonagh received a 36-week prison sentence suspended for a year.

Martin McDonagh received a 54-week prison sentence suspended for a year.

All three were banned from going within five miles of Bangor city centre, but can travel along the A55 without stopping if they wish to travel to Holyhead.

Judge Rhys Rowlands said they had lived in caravans at the site at Minffordd for about eight or nine months and a series of offences had been committed.

He said that he would suspend the sentences of the two male defendants because of delays and other factors, but warned that if they re-offended they would go to prison.

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