00:00Using bricks, sledgehammers and a Ford Fiesta to ram into the doors of the shops, robbers
00:06took watches, jewellery, fine art and safes containing cash before using stolen vehicles
00:11as getaway cars.
00:13Across the group, five successful burglars of shops in London were committed between
00:16May and July 2025, Kingsland Crown Court previously heard, with a total of over £145,000 worth
00:24of items stolen.
00:25The court heard there were also two unsuccessful burglaries on an apothecary in Marleybone and
00:31a watch shop in Westminster.
00:33The group consisted of 43-year-old Christopher Gibbs, George O'Hare, 42, Paul Hughes, who's
00:39also 42, 40-year-old Anthony Munday, Lee James McCready, who's 46, 50-year-old Matthew Windrass
00:46and David Rigglesford, who's 37 years old.
00:50McCready was on licence for murder committed in 2005 when he took part in a robbery, during
00:56which almost £60,000 worth of watches and jewellery were stolen from a store on Edgeware
01:00Road.
01:02CCTV footage shown in court showed the men, identified as McCready and Windrass, rushing
01:07up to the shop front wearing balaclavas before snatching watches and jewellery through the
01:12windows and running back to a getaway driver in a silver Jaguar, identified as Munday.
01:18In another burglary involving Gibbs, O'Hare and Hughes, CCTV showed the robbers using a
01:23Ford Fiesta to smash through the doors of a Fendi store on Sloane Street in central London.
01:28Let's see.
01:28happen.
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