Overview
- Chester Crown Court sentenced Kyle Draper to 42 months and Benjamin Evans to 45 months in prison after guilty pleas to four burglaries, two thefts and dangerous driving.
- Police traced a two-day spree on February 2–3 from North Wales into Cheshire, with CCTV capturing a Hyundai and a Seat Arona traveling in convoy into Chester.
- CCTV then placed the convoy near an Upton address where an Audi Q3 was taken, and later showed the Audi and Seat heading to Crewe where the Hyundai was dumped and recovered.
- After a Volvo was stolen in Crewe, officers from the Roads and Crime Unit pursued the Audi and Volvo in separate chases that ended in crashes in Staffordshire and the West Midlands, where both drivers were arrested.
- Investigators seized the men’s mobile phones and used footwear identification that matched Draper to the Upton address and indicated Evans’s shoes were highly likely to have been there, which police said helped secure the case and reassure victims.