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Prison for complicit guard in HGV theft
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A 35-YEAR-OLD security guard has been jailed for two years for helping to steal a truck and £48,000 worth of tyres.
Warwick Crown Court heard that Christopher Reeves, of Cemetery Way, Loughborough, Leics, was employed by TNT as a security guard at the Continental Tyres warehouse in Rugby. A TNT Renault artic loaded with 1,200 tyres was parked there
waiting for a driver to take it to Manchester. But the truck was stolen on a Saturday night last August and later found burnt out on the Yorkshire border; the tyres were never recovered.
The court heard that Reeves's role in the theft was to allow the truck to be taken and to attempt to cover up the offence by claiming he had been robbed. He had initially told police that three masked men had forced him to hand over the vehicle keys and locked him into a room to stop him raising the alarm. But his time sheets showed that the vehicle could not have travelled from Rugby to Yorkshire in the time between his last routine entry and its discovery
Reeves pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal the truck and its load.