‘Sticky Bandits’ stole 2,600,000 of scrap metal from firms | UK News [Video]

A gang who stole £1.6 million worth of machines and metals from businesses called themselves the ‘Sticky Bandits’ – after the Home Alone burglars.

The five professional burglars filmed themselves laughing and joking while they ransacked industrial units and factories.

One members of the gang even posed as a mourner in a cemetery to scope out a warehouse which was opposite.

Many of the businesses were targeted over Christmas 2022 while they were closed over the festive break.

After raiding one premises, they spray painted the words ‘Ha ha. Merry Xmas, Happy New Year’ on the floor before torching a lorry they had used.

Ten firms in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall, Bilston, Perry Barr, Brierley Hill, Kidderminster, Tamworth and Shrewsbury were hit.

The gang, from Wolverhampton, would spend hours at sites as they stole metal and other goods using heavy-duty plant and machinery.

They stole vehicles from the firms, and use others on cloned plates, to ferry the material back to their base on Watery Lane, Wolverhampton.

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