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Two men have been jailed for burglary following a string of offences in Suffolk and across the country.
25 year old Shane Phillips of New Street in Eye and Tim Moyle, aged 26 and previously Anchor Street in Lowestoft appeared before Ipswich Crown Court on Wed 13 January where they both pleaded guilty to the offences. Phillips received a two year and two months jail sentence, while Moyle received two years in jail.
The non-dwelling burglaries took place between 4 May 2020 and 19 June 2020 and took place at a business called Mowerfix Ltd in Worcestershire, the cricket ground at Ingham in North-Norfolk, Walsham-Le-Willows Sports Club and Bungay and District Sports club in North-Suffolk.
Phillips also pleaded to a further burglary on the 19 August last year in Snape, Suffolk. The total amount stolen in the offences amounted to nearly £40,000 worth of equipment.
During the investigation, the pair engaged with the Op Converter team to secure further offences that were Taken Into Consideration, which included offending that occurred across the country as far as Devon and Nottingham across a much longer time period going as far back as December 2019. Phillips had 58 other offences TIC’d, while Moyle had 38 TIC’d.
The pair admitted to targeting churches, community centres, sport grounds and infrequently schools. The break-ins primarily secured gardening tools, lawn mowers and ground maintenance tools, but also took food, fuel and power tools, including site equipment and larger objects including mini diggers and dumper trucks. The approximate value of the amount stolen in these other crimes is thought to be in the region of £122,000.
Their activity caused a great deal of disruption to businesses and services that impacted further on the local communities as well as a great financial drain to some agencies who could ill afford to cover the cost of the loss during the hard times of the Covid 19 lockdown last year.
DC Barry Simpson from the Op Converter team said: "It is very gratifying that the Op Converter process will have seen some closure for many of their victims they preyed on by the fact they admitted other crimes and enable the return of much of the stolen property.”
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