Serial car thieves jailed after stealing cars across Cheshire and North Wales

Kyle Draper, 21, of no fixed address and Benjamin Evans, 20, also of no fixed address appeared at Chester Crown Court on 2nd April to be sentenced.

Draper and Evans had both pleaded guilty to four burglaries, two thefts and dangerous driving at an earlier hearing.

Draper was sentenced to 42 months in prison and Evans was sentenced to 45 months in prison.

Benjamin Evans

Officers from Cheshire Police launched an investigation into the burglaries across North Wales and Cheshire between 2 and 3 February.

They identified two stolen vehicles, a Hyundai and a Seat Arona, from North Wales travelling in convoy to Chester on the evening on 2 February.

CCTV showed both vehicles approaching the city centre later that night. Further CCTV put them in the area when an Audi Q3 is then stolen from an Upton address. The Audi and the Seat were then captured travelling in convoy to Crewe where the Hyundai was dumped and later recovered by police.

A Volvo was then stolen in Crewe, and both the Audi and Volvo were captured travelling in convoy between Cheshire and Staffordshire.

On the afternoon of 3 February officer from the Roads and Crime Unit spotted two stolen cars and made attempts to stop them.

Both vehicles fled from the officers driving dangerously throughout the pursuit. The Audi crashed in the Staffordshire area and Draper was arrested.  The Volvo continued into the West Midlands travelling at high speed and crashed. Evans was arrested at the scene.

Their mobile phones were seized, and a footwear identification officer stated the footwear of Draper was found at the address in Upton and Evans’s footwear was highly likely have been present at the same address.

Kyle Draper

PC Jack Ryder said:

“These two reckless young men targeted so many addresses in such a short period of time, but didn’t count on us closing in on them and stopping them in their tracks, not only with the help of our colleagues in specialist departments but also our colleagues in the West Midlands.

“As a result of our combined efforts we were able to take them down and get justice for the victims. I hope this reassures people that we are relentless in our pursuit of those who break the law.”