Plant theft gang sentenced over £1.3m of stolen kit

Three people including a pair of brothers have been jailed, with four more given suspended sentences, for their parts in the handling and sale of in excess of £1m worth of stolen machinery.
A total of 46 machines were stolen mainly from across the North West between 2015 and 2018, and were then sold on to a gang who operated out of an industrial unit in Nelson, Lancashire where the stolen goods were modified to hide their original identification numbers.
The gang then sold the machines on