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00:00lifting gangs when shoplifters strike
00:11the offending behavior is getting out of control when he was arrested he was in possession of a
00:17lock knife can they be caught they believe that you've been shoplifting this morning so just stand
00:22up for me it's really shocking how prison did gotten from the lone wolves to organized crime
00:33gangs they still almost order high-value items to get the biggest bang for their buck
00:43these guys have extensive criminal histories across europe this series follows the police forces let's
00:51go and get some results on the hunt stop plainclothes please plainclothes please stop stop you're under
00:56arrest for death do you know why we have stopped you attempting to protect the victims yes yes you
01:02all right mate what's them last given each day wise all that's unacceptable this is life-threatening
01:07and bring down the criminals shoplifting is a crime we want to bring offenders to justice and that is
01:13not easy
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03:13He's just awaiting an interview.
03:15We're awaiting a solicitor,
03:16and then we can do a briefing with that solicitor
03:19and get him interviewed.
03:23So he was arrested by one of my colleagues
03:26because he was wanted for the theft from shops.
03:31He's ran from officers.
03:33Officers have chased him.
03:34They've had to parve him upon arrest
03:36because he was resisting arrest.
03:38We have parve spray that we're all trained to use.
03:41Spray it in the eyes.
03:43And then when he was arrested,
03:45he was in possession of a lock knife,
03:48which was seized from him.
03:51So there, just in that officer's hand,
03:55that's the blade that he had on him upon arrest.
04:03He just appears to be grabbing anything and throwing it in.
04:07Quite a lot of high-volume meats, it looks like.
04:12It could be for a drug habit or an alcohol habit.
04:15We're not too sure.
04:17He's gone to the same meat counter here.
04:23There's even some alcohol there.
04:25Quite clearly see his face.
04:27And then he leaves.
04:28That's the entrance.
04:30So the total value of everything he's stolen
04:33over those four offences is Ā£2,000.
04:40As well as the recent shop thefts,
04:43Kenny is also suspected of other antisocial and aggressive behaviour.
04:47Just because I came out, that smashed.
04:51I came out and I saw him running.
04:53I just didn't get cleaning this up.
04:55Look, there's no brick.
04:57He smashed the windows with the machete.
04:58I swear to God it's not me.
05:00Someone else has gone up here before.
05:02He's just run off down there.
05:04Not sure if he's done that with the machete or by any other means.
05:07But he smashed the window of this property and then he's left.
05:13Police have gathered CCTV evidence showing a confrontation
05:16between the suspected shop thief and a man at the address the window was smashed.
05:21So there we go.
05:22This is the other suspect that's been interviewed.
05:24He has a bat.
05:25And then our suspect in custody was the one with the machete.
05:31And then he's come back with the machete in his pants,
05:34brandished it to the other male.
05:39So we'll interview him for the affray at first.
05:43He had a machete on him in that offence.
05:47We'll show him all the evidence we've got for that.
05:51And then we'll go on to the theft from shops.
05:54And then the arrest and the fact that he was arrested with an offensive weapon.
05:58And we'll ask him about that.
05:59And see what he says really.
06:03An organised crime gang steal more than Ā£160,000 of goods from UK supermarkets.
06:10These are real criminal organisations.
06:13These are people who are doing this to fund a criminal lifestyle.
06:30They don't get out of the way.
06:39They lancer.
06:40It's the last three pieces of intel suggest he's dealingā¦
06:43Operation Vulture is Lancashire Police' task force, dedicated to combating shop theft.
06:54We've got a day of action planned in the city centre today, so we've got a number of plain,
06:57enclosed offices and uniformed offices going round and about stop searching all
07:02of our known nominals and hopefully getting a few positive results for
07:05shoplifting. Brief the team just before we tip out or pair everyone up and then
07:10they'll have specific areas they'll go to. We usually do our days of action a
07:15couple of times each month when we get the chance to but we don't want to make
07:18them structured we want to surprise the individuals when we're out in town.
07:27Josh we have to keep moving on.
07:31Is that basically who is it we're waiting for here? Kieran and Carpets they're just
07:34getting a taser aren't they? Thank you all for coming today I thought do a bit of an
07:38official bit of a briefing to go through what we're going to do today in the
07:42town centre so it's gonna be another day of action around shoplifting, stop
07:46searches, just being seen and disrupting anyone that we need to go for. Right
07:51Jack and Hamza the plainclothes officers out if you two can stick together it'll
07:54be me and Josh, Kieran and Carpets, Jake and Jamie and Seth and Roman. Your main
08:01shops if you can go into them and just tell the workers in the shop or anyone
08:06that you see what we're doing today so go into Boots, TK Marks, all your shops that
08:09were there, spread the message with what we're doing see if they can tell us
08:12anything. A lot of you will already know your nominals in city centre anyway I'm
08:16just having a quick look here on Centurion to see if there's any notes about
08:19anyone else being wanted. The team are targeting the most serious repeat
08:26offenders. Morris, he's out and about. Jane, not shoplifting related but she might be in
08:32town. Quite a nasty assault that she's wanted for. George, there's a few jobs for
08:36him. If he's in town he's breaching his CBO. But yeah, have fun, cause chaos.
08:54One of the first jobs I did when I was a sergeant on Preston with the city centre was we
09:00had a probably about three or four jobs for George and
09:03then we locked him up, me and Jack. So that's him entering the store that.
09:12It looks like he's just getting the items and then he's clearly put that other wine bottle or whatever bottle
09:17alcohol it was on the other part and then he's going to go pick up a couple of more so
09:21the report says he's picked, he's taking three bottles of alcohol which adds up.
09:25Then he's obviously going to go around the year. He looks like he's discarding them here.
09:38Oh, he's getting a bottle of Daniels whisky.
09:45Oh, he's getting them all.
09:51It's not guaranteed he'll be in town, cause he could be offending anywhere else but it'd be brilliant to get
09:57him in. There's quite a few jobs out for him obviously and he's a prolific offender, he's well known to
10:00us.
10:02Happy days, past all points of payment, erm, out.
10:29For Kenny, the shop thief arrested with a knife, police now have only six hours to bring charges before his
10:36company.
10:36Custody clock runs out.
10:39Officers prepare to brief the solicitor who's been provided for the suspect.
10:45He's being spotted in the street yesterday by officers who've seen that he's wanted for breach of court order.
10:54However, when they've searched him, they've found a bladed article on him.
10:59It's like a standing knife, I'll show you that.
11:01So he's been arrested for that as well.
11:03It's like the client has smashed a window at the property.
11:11OK, this is the one.
11:14What happened?
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12:02No.
12:07No.
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12:18No.
12:19Fine.
12:19Are you OK to go for interview?
12:21No, no.
12:22Right.
12:22So what...what do you need?
12:26What?
12:27What is it you need?
12:28To feel better.
12:29Tablets.
12:30Tablets?
12:31What tablets?
12:33Mosties, my Avantia.
12:35OK.
12:35Have you spoken to the nurse about it, since you've been here?
12:37No, I'll be all right in a few hours.
12:40You'll be all right in a few hours?
12:41Well, what we're doing is we're looking to interview you
12:43so we can get this over and done with, can't we?
12:47I want to chat with the custody sergeant, all right,
12:49and we'll see where we go.
12:51He is not keen on coming out to interview,
12:55so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to update the custody sergeant
12:58and the suspect's solicitor
13:04and see where we go from there.
13:32I'm just going to help you.
13:34In June, 2020
13:36Cheshire police were made aware of a prolific gang targeting Asda stores.
13:41You can see, can't you, just how brazen they are?
13:44This individual we're following here, he looked at the camera several times,
13:49notices that people are watching him, but he just continues.
13:54This is some CCTV that was obtained as part of Operation Socrates.
14:00This footage is from Asda.
14:04It was a very distinct method that was used by the group in order to steal.
14:11This history effectively shows their modus operandi, it shows them stealing bulk items.
14:17He's choosing large bulks of toiletries, he'll go on to choose ink cartridges,
14:21so as you can see there, the shopping bag's pretty full, it's a bag for life,
14:25which we saw throughout the conspiracy.
14:27When he's happy and he's satisfied, he's filled that bag now full of toiletries,
14:32he tries to disguise it as groceries, on this occasion he's filling it with, looks like, spinach.
14:38The individuals, after concealing the items, would then contact another member who was in the store,
14:45almost to give the okay to now provide the distraction to enable them to leave.
14:51The gang was first identified by an intelligence team working for retailers called the NBCS.
14:59Within Cheshire, we're working closely with the National Business Crime Solution
15:02to gather intelligence and gather packages of evidence in cases like this and others
15:09to target offenders operating across the country.
15:12They were using a really sophisticated MO, so what this was is what we call a distraction MO.
15:18So they would both come in separately.
15:20One of them would go and select an item that had a tag on it, a security tag.
15:25He would purposely purchase that on a self-scan till so that the tag wasn't removed.
15:32They would then time each other's movements so that the vendor who had bought the item with the tag
15:37would go, set the alarms off, he would stand inside the alarm barrier,
15:42he would pretend that he didn't speak English or understand English when approached by security,
15:47the alarm would still be going off and in the meantime his friend,
15:50with a trolley full of ink cartridges, would walk out behind him.
15:53They wouldn't know the difference of those items setting the alarm off.
15:57He would walk off, this guy would then produce his receipt,
15:59he'd be allowed to go on his way and they'd just walked out completely undetected.
16:05Two suspects with suspected links to a Romanian organised crime group were identified by police.
16:12What was different about this investigation was the training.
16:16So, you know, you're watching them train live on CCTV,
16:20you're watching one crime group member be shown how the offences are committed.
16:25They would stand there and watch while the other committed the offence
16:28and then they would go on and commit their own offending
16:31and then bring another crime group member in.
16:36Over the 81 shop thefts, it was approximately Ā£160,000 worth of high-value goods,
16:43which included ink cartridges, nappies, perfumes, razors.
16:50The intelligence stated that the reason why ink cartridges were being targeted by this gang
16:55is because those cartridges were being used to transport out of the country
16:59to make fake currency.
17:01So that ink really, in essence, wasn't an ink cartridge
17:05that was worth Ā£30, making them Ā£10 on the black market.
17:09It was something that was worth Ā£30, that was using to make Ā£3,000 worth of money for them
17:16for another criminal enterprise.
17:18And that's what told us this was really organised.
17:51Ā£10,000 worth of money for the
17:53we'll do because mark's not going back to me we'll see if he's outside boots if not we'll do a
17:58quick
17:58leap in the car seat who's about who's about and then we'll park up and up
18:13we'll get some of today yeah yeah there's loads of new faces
18:24the hunt for the main suspects identifies others known to the operation vulture team
18:30Jack has just spotted a male who is known for shoplifting he's gone into a shop and then
18:35quickly come out without anything when I rest in here you're time for a search at the minutes
18:42I'm PC Moose 517 attached to Preston police basically the grounds are that you're on
18:48shoplifting and you've walked I'm not shoplifting I've just got a bag from right right right listen
18:53listen they're sick on my clothes right listen so we I suspect that you might have some stolen
18:59property in your bag there's a another lad in there um potentially he's friends with him so
19:06he might be on the graft as well so we'll just wait to see I don't get in trouble
19:39let's have a seat there for
19:40out to be potential shoplifters in M&S just bear with me let me get this out to you and
19:46then we'll
19:46search you and you can be on your way all right just turn around for me
19:58at last a call comes in that one of the main targets George has been seen
20:15police in Cheshire close in on the organized crime gang we established their identities through
20:22the Romanian attache established who they were and where they were from we then located the
20:27potential addresses and we had to get warrants at addresses in Oldham and the Birmingham area
20:55come on
21:01it's fine dodge him's in it still stay where you are a lot of it absolutely fine
21:06Jack is he being all right stop plainclothes please plainclothes please stop stop you're
21:12under arrest you there it's all right take his bag off you do have to stay here may have
21:16your fence if you don't mention one question something which I try to get down
21:18anything you do say may be given evidence nothing in the bag just got him locked up orchard street
21:24get that van coming please mate where's the van is we in the van it's coming now it's coming
21:29why are these so tight then because you've made off for me and passed out what he's doing again
21:41you got anything in that bag
21:48what's your property if I've been here and then you said that I want it
21:54Just going to give me a quick pat down before we sit you in the bomb.
22:05Wednesday.
22:07Oi, oi.
22:10It's not been in your bag.
22:12It's not my bag.
22:13It's not my bag to be.
22:14You've not taken it, have you?
22:16Oh, he's already got it.
22:17Oh, he's got it.
22:18Oh, he's got it.
22:19Too slow.
22:21He's one of them that was on briefing.
22:23We were just right place, right time, though, weren't we?
22:26Eyes of an eagle.
22:28You are, sorry.
22:28Eyes of an eagle.
22:30You're not right, though.
22:31Spots everything.
22:34Let's do it.
22:35He's already on PNC Wanted, so...
22:37Oh, right.
22:39He's under arrest for that.
22:40Yeah.
22:41And then I'll go back to Nick and just have a look at him.
22:43Good work.
22:45To your medals.
23:09I'm just letting you know that I'm authorising your detention, secure and preserve evidence,
23:14to obtain evidence by questioning.
23:16Basically, I'm going to interview you, OK?
23:18There's other fences we might have to put to you as well.
23:29He ran off from me last time, so...
23:31Oh, right.
23:32I've let Hamza know, and we've just gone and just got hold of him and arrested him.
23:37And he was outstanding wanted on PNC for theft as well.
23:40And then there's a couple more, I think, for him as well on our systems locally.
23:47Do you need anything?
23:48Catch that buzzer.
23:49I'll see you inside.
23:50I'll see you soon.
23:51I'll get you back to Nick.
24:18Well, mate.
24:21Right, apparently you refused to come out yourself to go and see the nurse.
24:25I'll organise that for you to try and get you sorted.
24:29Right, if you don't want to come out for an interview, you'll get interviewed in here.
24:33The interview's going to happen either way, buddy.
24:35So you've got the option, you can come into the interview room and get out yourself for a bit
24:38when your solicitor gets back, or you get interviewed in here.
24:42All right, so have a think about what you want to do
24:44whilst your solicitor's making his way back, OK?
24:51It's coming up to five to three now,
24:54so we're looking at about three and a half hours left on the 24-hour,
24:59what we get in terms of holding people initially in custody.
25:04I reckon he's playing the game because he knows
25:06that he's going to be held on the court warrant anyway,
25:09so he's just playing the game to try and frustrate the investigation.
25:18The solicitor's here now, mate.
25:20Have you had a thought about what you're going to do?
25:25Kenny finally agrees to be questioned by officers in the interview room.
25:35Yeah, he's changed his mind from having an interview with a cell.
25:38I'm not sure why he's changed his mind.
25:39He might want to give an account,
25:41or he might want to tell us something about the offence,
25:44but he should let us know soon.
25:46Peace, Sam.
25:46Come to me, then.
26:14Come to me, then.
26:19In June 2020, police suspected a foreign criminal gang
26:24was targeting Asda stores throughout the UK.
26:27The pressure built to find and arrest the suspects
26:30before they fled the country.
26:33The United Kingdom has many, many police forces
26:37that operate individually,
26:39so the difficulty can sometimes arise
26:41where these offenders operate across borders,
26:43across counties, across policing areas.
26:46They travel, you know,
26:47and on the 8th of May, they're in Derby,
26:50and the following day, on the 9th of June,
26:52they're in South Wales, down to Newport,
26:54Cardiff Bay, and Barrie.
26:57This was a vast amount of travel
27:00for the criminality that they were committing.
27:04But the gang made one crucial error.
27:06They used their own cars.
27:10What we were able to do is support DC Matchit
27:14from a point of view of A&PR,
27:16because we've got a lot of access to private A&PR,
27:18which covers retail parks,
27:20so we can see where vehicles were going,
27:22and we could help support that and track vehicles.
27:26This group specifically used three separate vehicles
27:30as effectively their getaway vehicles.
27:33By utilising automatic number plates recognition,
27:36we were able to link these vehicles
27:38back to the individuals involved.
27:41Which allowed DC Matchit to do the most important thing
27:44was actually finding where these individuals live.
27:48Police identify three more members of the group
27:51by September 2020.
27:57This is imagery from the warrant
27:59that we executed on the 10th of September,
28:01an address in Oldham.
28:03They were shocked when we arrived at the address.
28:05They believed that they were, you know,
28:08disguising their identity sufficiently,
28:10so that they would not be caught.
28:13There was numerous toiletries recovered within the address,
28:16as well as other items,
28:18all Gillette, all premium toiletries,
28:21all of expense, but used daily,
28:24so sought after.
28:25We found the credit cards
28:27that had been used in those transactions,
28:29again, linking those individuals.
28:31But the biggest poignant evidence
28:34that we found was receipts.
28:36So we found handwritten receipts
28:38that showed a sale of items,
28:41printer ink cartridges,
28:43that had clearly been sold to a handler,
28:46the price that had been sold to a handler,
28:48and the quantity and amount
28:50that had been sold.
28:52This assisted greatly in the investigation.
28:54This showed the Crown Prosecuting Service
28:56that, you know, this is bulk shoplifting.
28:59It's not just one or two items.
29:02When the decision was made by myself
29:05to authorise charge of all six suspects
29:08in relation to conspiracy to steal,
29:10what we then have to consider is,
29:13for trial, how are we going to present this case?
29:16Once the suspects had been arrested,
29:20that, for me, is when the real work starts.
29:45and that, for some of the reasons,
29:52is because of print and brain
29:59So, four shopliftings and then, I think, a common assault as well.
30:03So, I just need to look at all the cases, link them to the case,
30:07make sure everything's updated on the case,
30:09just prepare my interview questions and then go from there.
30:24So, this interview will be orderly recorded.
30:27I'm PC2290. Are we impressed in custody?
30:31Are you guilty of theft from Curry's on the 12th of May?
30:36Explain to me what happened on that day.
30:39Why did you enter the store at 1.48pm?
30:43Did you take your gaming controller worth Ā£9.99?
30:48Are you guilty of theft from Goddor's on the 12th of June 2021?
30:52Did you steal the orange and black jackets amounting to Ā£365?
30:57So, you've been further arrested for theft and common assault,
31:00which occurred on the range,
31:02where you allegedly stole an air fryer amounting to Ā£29.99,
31:08and you assaulted a staff member.
31:10So, are you guilty of theft from the range on the 5th of April 2025?
31:14Are you guilty of common assault on the 5th of April 2025?
31:17Were you challenged when you left the store?
31:20What happened when you were challenged?
31:23Are you guilty of theft from Morrison's on the 25th of June?
31:28Explain to me what happened on the day.
31:31What items did you steal?
31:34Did you take three bottles of alcohol?
31:43Just leave me shoes.
31:47Officers will need to prove the thefts
31:49to secure charges with the Crown Prosecution Service.
32:03So, that's him.
32:06OK, I got the still.
32:08You're probably not going to get the footage, that's fine,
32:10but we got the CCTV still.
32:11All right, that's fine.
32:13As long as you've got the statement, that's what you need more, isn't it?
32:16Yeah, I need a statement.
32:20Ready?
32:21Yeah, we're ready to go.
32:22All right, let's go.
32:24I sent out PCSO Mohamed and PCSO Aaron
32:26to get statements from some of these shops,
32:29as well as CCTV footage.
32:45Hiya, you all right?
32:47I'm PCSO Mohamed.
32:48We're just here regarding shoplifting.
32:51It was quite a while ago.
32:52It was April.
32:53OK.
32:54But there's a suspect that we're just pretty much trying
32:55to get a lot of evidence on at the moment.
32:57OK.
32:58He shopped up here during April time.
33:01OK.
33:02How far back does he CCTV be?
33:0428 days.
33:0428 days.
33:05So there won't be no CCTV at all.
33:08Was it Saturday?
33:10Yeah.
33:10Was it an air fryer?
33:11Air fryer, yes.
33:12Yeah, I know.
33:12I think he got assaulted.
33:13I know exactly which incident it was.
33:15Yeah.
33:16Were you in that day?
33:16Of course.
33:17We've had loads of issues with him over the past.
33:20Yeah, yeah.
33:20They've all been reported as well.
33:22Yeah.
33:23I mean, it's not just yourself.
33:24I'm British.
33:24I think there's multiple stores around here
33:26that are getting problems with him now.
33:27Yeah.
33:28So we're just looking into him more further right now.
33:30He's quite public about it.
33:31He's not really.
33:32Yeah, he does.
33:32He's not really public.
33:33He can't disagree.
33:34It's the same here.
33:35He just kind of picks up whatever and just leaves.
33:37Yeah, yeah.
33:37He's just walking right now and just picks something in the front.
33:39What did you take from here, do you know?
33:41Air fryers all the time.
33:42Just air fryers?
33:42Air fryers.
33:43Always air fryers.
33:44Always air fryers.
33:45All right.
33:46See you.
33:47Bye-bye.
33:49There are some cases, you know, there's been multiple shoplifts that happen and sometimes
33:54we just can't get the CCTV or we struggle to get the CCTV and just sometimes the suspect
33:59does end up walking away.
34:01But this is really important to why we do get statements because as much as we won't
34:05have the footage, for example, statements help match up the evidence.
34:12The last remaining chance of a witness statement to bolster the case is from a Morrison's employee.
34:19That's really big old one.
34:21Yeah, really well.
34:32Quick one, have you got the two statements and footage for the jobs?
34:38Yeah, I have the Morrison's one, the Rage one, the guys on holiday and the footage is
34:44no longer there but they've got the still apparently.
34:48Right, okay.
34:49So we haven't got any evidence of the potential for the Range one but we've got everything
34:52for the Morrison's CCTV on statement.
34:55Yeah, the nice question, sir.
34:56I think he's an old word.
34:57They've got the statement and with the Range one, we can still get my statement but the
35:03guy's on holiday so it'd have to be a phone statement.
35:07Yeah, no worries mate, that's fine. Did he say when he's back?
35:11About two weeks, more than one, just to be back.
35:15Yeah, no, he's mate, that's fine.
35:18I'm going to charge George three of them out of the four because we haven't got evidence
35:22for one of them yet and the guy who's on holiday for two weeks has not seen it.
35:26So charge a man in for that and an RUI for the fourth but we'll get that in postal
35:29record.
35:30Right, perfect.
35:31So how do you keep that job anyway?
35:32Brilliant.
35:33How are we going?
35:33Great work.
35:34Good day.
35:35I think for me and like Daphne said the team, we prefer doing days like today when we get
35:41the chance because you're not reacting to jobs, you're proactively looking to stop people
35:45and getting involved.
35:47All the fashion policing isn't it?
35:48On the ground, everyone out and about, grabbing all the people, locking them up and being seen.
35:53So yeah, I think we definitely love doing this kind of stuff.
35:55Should be doing it more.
36:02George pleaded guilty to three shop thefts and breach of a suspended sentence and went
36:07to prison for three months.
36:13Can interviewing the shop thief caught with the knife lead to a breakthrough?
36:18That image is very clear.
36:20It clearly shows you taking items and walking away from the shop.
36:25And you're telling us that's not you?
36:28Yeah.
36:28Did you believe it?
36:46Holy crap.
36:48Maybe youkun freshman.
37:00in September 2020 four members of the gang gave mostly no comment interviews this made it harder
37:08to prove a conspiracy to steal charge an offense that brings much more serious punishment we went
37:15through in detail the investigation what a conspiracy was what their role within that
37:19conspiracy was and what evidence we had to prove that and each was interviewed over that point
37:26then one of the original gang members was arrested and Cheshire police had one last opportunity this
37:34interview is being digitally recorded I'm Detective Constable Paul Matchett land base at Norfolk police
37:38station you've been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to steal with other males are you
37:43responsible for that offense no he's not guilty this is taken from as they're in Great Bridge yes
37:50in April yes he confirms yeah that's you yeah who's not next to you on the CCT she needs the
37:59individual
37:59I didn't get in it you don't know that person huh no that's not Nikolai Healy no he doesn't know
38:08so proving a conspiracy is all about um proving association and proving knowledge of what was
38:14going on or what they plan to do and then from the 18th of June the office position Union CCTV
38:23shows
38:24is Mr. Ealy committing offenses with Mr. Moroso so the circle's complete for the offending
38:34you don't know your Nikolai's book I don't know this guys when you have that really strong evidential
38:42picture and when you're able to interview these offenders with that evidence in front of in front
38:48of them they're left with no option but typically to to admit to to what they've done why then are
38:54you on CCTV all different locations stealing with these people is there anything you want to say
39:01I made a mistake it's not just one mistake though is it multiple thefts
39:17and these lists show that this is organized not a mistake
39:25until the pre-trial hearing all six continued to deny conspiracy to steal
39:32I felt extremely confident that we had built an effective and strong prosecution case I believe
39:39that this was evidenced by the fact that all six defendants thereafter pleaded guilty at the first
39:45opportunity each of the six gang members received the same 42 month prison sentence a charge of
39:53conspiracy meant that no matter whether they were involved from the outset or joined quite late they were
40:00all held accountable for their offending it was a sentence that I was happy reflected the criminality
40:06that they were committing it was a sentence I was satisfied with it was a sentence that I thought
40:11you know it was a was a good result for the work and the effort that went into this investigation
40:17these guys had extensive criminal histories across Europe and so it is clearly they were traveling and
40:23this was a way of life for them the UK was just the next country on their list to target
40:28that's the scary thing when you look at this
40:44the Internet you are
40:57you
41:03So, you've been interviewed under suspicion of a fray
41:07and four times theft from shops
41:10and then possession of an offensive weapon, OK?
41:13What did you take?
41:15What do you mean?
41:16What did you take from the shop?
41:18What shop?
41:19Chorley. Tesco Express, Chorley Road.
41:22What is that?
41:23In Chorley.
41:25I don't know where Chorley Road is.
41:27OK.
41:29All right, so, this one is on the 20th.
41:31Yeah.
41:32There's someone up there admiring the meat selection.
41:36Yeah.
41:36With a bag of the knife.
41:40That image is very clear.
41:42It clearly shows you taking items and walking away from the shop.
41:46And you're telling us that's not you?
41:49Yeah.
41:51OK.
41:53So, I'm just showing you some CCTV at 14.20 on the 29th of June 2025.
42:05There you go.
42:09You then turn back around.
42:14Something's shining in your hand.
42:15What is that?
42:19I've never seen that in my life.
42:22OK.
42:23You're more looking at the pink item there, the pink mental item.
42:28Can you see that in your hat?
42:29I go, why did you put something in my hat?
42:33Right.
42:34What is that?
42:36I don't know.
42:36But it's placed something in my hat, obviously.
42:38There's nothing found on my person.
42:40Nothing found on my person in the search.
42:42Because all they had on, yeah, was a pair of shorts.
42:45Right?
42:45There's nothing found on my person by any police officer.
42:49Right.
42:49That a police officer picked a knife up, right?
42:52Yeah?
42:52Not on my person.
42:53Whoever they picked his knife up, or the way they've got it from,
42:57and placed it in my hat and took a picture of it.
43:00Yeah?
43:00That is not right for them to do.
43:02To pick a knife up or place a knife wherever they acquired that knife from.
43:06That is not right.
43:08OK.
43:09That is not right.
43:09And you know what?
43:10That comes borderline as a legal trying to do.
43:12I think that looks like, how can they place a knife in my hat?
43:21So, he stated that the theft from shops are not him.
43:25We've shown him clear CCTV of his face.
43:27However, he states it's not him.
43:28We've warned him that, obviously, we've got CCTV.
43:32Adamant it's not him.
43:34We've also asked him about the affray.
43:36He said that's not him.
43:38So, he basically denied all offences.
43:40He's also said that a police officer has put a knife in his hat
43:44when he got arrested yesterday.
43:47It's quite an implausible thing,
43:48considering two police officers had never any more videos on.
43:52But that's the story stuck to.
43:54That's the story stuck to an instrument.
43:55He did get questioned on it, tested on it,
43:58but he didn't want to give any further explanation.
44:02With only an hour left on his 24-hour custody clock,
44:06Kenny was charged with offences,
44:08including three shop thefts and possession of a knife.
44:11He was given a 14-month prison sentence.
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