lingwood Slashers" get 11 fears for Lim cargo thefts
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I Sever members of a ilerseyside-based gang of lorry iieves known as the "Pingwood .lashers" have been jailed for a atai of 21 years after pleading uilty to stealing goods said to e worth around ilm from arked trucks.
Liverpool Crown Court eard how the seven men, all eighbours from Kirby, were art of a gang that stole a vanity of goods including televiions and Easter Eggs by target ig parked on motorway ervices, striking while the driers slept in their cabs.
The gang came to be known s the Pingwood Slashers lecause of the way they cut their way into curtaInsided vehicles and after the Pingwood pub in Kirby where some of the goods were stored. They were finally caught when police swooped daring one of their nocturnal raids last April.
Judge Mark Brown described the Pingwood Slashers' operation as "dishonest, well-organised, wellplanned and carefully executed". He added: 'It has to be said that the safe transport of consumer goods up and down the motorway network is vital to the welfare of business in this country."
All seven men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal.