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A ROMANIAN gang who stripped lead from ten Somerset church roofs have been jailed for a combined total of more than 20 years. The four men targeted 36 churches across England over two years, costing them a total of £2.1million in damage and repairs during a two-year crime spree. The local churches included St Peter and St Pauls, South Petherton; St Edward King and Martyr, Goathurst; St Marys, Glastonbury; St Giles, Bradford-on-Tone; St Andrew and St Mary, Pitminster; Holy Cross, Middlezo...

Gang travelled the country to strip lead from rural churches leaving communities heartbroken Many are still struggling to find the funds to make the repairs safe 11:41, 7 JAN 2021 Updated Sign up for our free newsletter for court stories sent straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters ...

A prolific gang who stripped the lead from dozens of rural churches across England were today jailed for a total of 22 years. The four Romanian men, who were all living in the West Midlands, targeted churches from Somerset to North Yorkshire during a two-year crime spree which left churches facing repair bills totalling more than £2million.   Among those counties hit hardest during the two-year crime spree were Lincolnshire, Somerset, Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire. The thieves also took lead ...

 | Updated: 18:56, 06 January 2021 A prolific gang stripped the lead from dozens of rural churches across England, including Billingborough and Normanton, causing utter devastation to village communities, a court was told today (Wednesday). The four men, who appeared in Lincoln Crown Court, targeted churches from Somerset to North Yorkshire during a two-year crime spree which left churches facing repair bills totalling more than £2 million. The counties hardest hit by the crime spree were ...

BBC News Published image captionThe affected churches faced a combined repair bill of more than £2m, Lincoln Crown Court was told Four men who stole lead from more than 20 remote country churches across England have been jailed. Paul Buica, Constantin Motescu, Luarentiu Sucea and Mihai Birtu targeted the churches, from Dorset to Yorkshire, between 2018 and 2020. The affected buildings faced a combined repair bill of more than £2m, Lincoln Crown Court was told. A vicar said the thieves had "de...

Over 20 years in jail for church lead thefts gang Other defendants still sought by the police Constantin Motescu, Laurentiu Sucea, Paul Buica, and Mihai Birtu have all been jailed. | Photo: Lincolnshire Police A prolific gang of Romanian men stripped the lead from dozens of rural churches across England causing utter devastation to village communities, a court was told on Wednesday. The four men targeted churches from Somerset to North Yorkshire during a two-year crime spree which left churches...

Billingborough church among dozens targeted by imprisoned gang  | Updated: 19:54, 06 January 2021 A prolific gang stripped the lead from dozens of rural churches across England, causing utter devastation to village communities, a court was told today (Wednesday). The four men targeted churches from Somerset to North Yorkshire during a two-year crime spree which left churches facing repair bills totalling more than £2million. The counties hardest hit by the crime spree were Lincolnshire, So...

Church roof gang jailed for total of more than 22 years  | Updated: 19:52, 06 January 2021 Four men have been jailed for a combined total of 22 years and seven months for the theft of lead from churches across the country. The four defendants stripped tonnes of lead from a mixture of Grade 1 and Grade 2 churches between May 2018 and March 2020 – costing 36 churches a combined total of almost £2.1million. The amount the defendants would have made from scrapping the lead would have been...