Published date: 11 February 2016 |
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THREE men from a travelling family have been jailed for burgling a village garage near Caernarfon.
A tracker device in a stolen minibus led to their arrest 150 miles away on the M6 near Coventry.
They admitted the night-time burglary on January 7 and stealing a Mercedes Sprinter from Express Motors in Penygroes.
Disability claimant Edward McDonagh, 27, from Manchester, was jailed for 27 months.
Father-of-eight Bernard McDonagh, 48, of Brentwood, Essex, was imprisoned for 27 months.
His brother, John McDonagh, 51, from Stoke on Trent, received a 22 month sentence.
Edward McDonagh activated a 54 weeks suspended jail term imposed three weeks before the burglary.
At Caernarfon Crown Court, Prosecutor Richard Edwards said the stolen vehicle was stopped by police using a 'stinger' device that punctured the tyres.
Two members of the burglary gang escaped but the defendants, who had been in a Mazda behind the minibus, were held.
Two stolen safes containing £6,000 were recovered.
Judge Philip Harris-Jenkins told the defendants: ”You each sought to minimise your position by trying to make out you happened to be in the Penygroes area looking for some sort of party.”
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