Two men who travelled to North Wales on a “crime spree” looking to steal from cars and houses have been jailed.
Two men who travelled to North Wales on a “crime spree” looking to steal from cars and houses have been jailed.
Carl Mello and Anthony Evans saw the region as a “soft touch”, and stole a car in Chester in order to travel to North Wales to look for potential targets.
Vehicles parked at Chester Zoo, the Talardy Hotel in St Asaph and the retail park a tRhuddlan had been targeted, and strimmers had been stolen from a residential property at Dyserth , and from the Dyserth Falls Resort, all on the same day on August 16 last year.
They theft had been reported, police got an ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) hit on the stolen vehicle, they chased the car and Mello and Evans initially failed to stop.
Mello, of Woodchurch Road in Prenton, Wirral, and Evans, of Lansdown Place in Prenton, were both on suspended sentences for their involvement in a brawl in a Birkenhead bar in May last year.
Judge Nicolas Parry, sitting at Mold Crown Court, told the pair: “This was a crime spree. You travelled from Merseyside into North Wales no doubt thinking that it was a soft touch. You came in a vehicle that was stolen for the purpose.”
Myles Wilson, for Mello, said that the affray got a bit of notoriety on Merseyside and ended up front page news there.
Because of that notoriety, 28-year-old Mello lost his job as a roofer, and had committed the theft offences in order to raise money.
He could not complain if he was sent to prison but he was now re-establishing himself and had been offered a job as a glazier.
Rehabilitation would help reduce the risk of re-offending and the probation service had been thinking about sending him for counselling because of the impact on him of a manslaughter conviction many years ago.
Clare Jones, for Evans, said that he had been making good progress under the suspended sentence and if given an opportunity “would seize it with both hands”.
But the judge said that the offences were so serious that it had to be immediate custody.
Judge Parry jailed Mello for 16 months and 30-year-old Evans for nine months.
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