Justice has finally caught up with a member of a notorious Merseyside hole in the wall gang behind ATM blasts that left a £1.5m trail of destruction.
The raiders used gas tanks to blast open 31 cash points across the North West and Midlands, causing hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage in the process.
The gang’s tactics, only seen before in mainland Europe, involved forcing open the machine with a crowbar and inserting a pipe with a mixture of gases which was then ignited with a flame – often matches taped to a wire – to cause the explosion.
The gang, who stole £800,000, were eventually traced to a hide-out they had at a detached house in Sandy Meadows in Huyton just hours after a raid in September 2013.
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Source: Liverpool Echo