SIX members of a criminal gang have been jailed for more than 65 years after being convicted of numerous robberies and burglaries across the north west including in Lymm.

The group were jailed for more than 41 years in August 2016 after being convicted of conspiracy to commit a series of house burglaries.

The same group have now been convicted of a number of robberies and were jailed on Friday for a total of 23 years and 11 months, bringing the final total to 65 years and six months.

James Blakeborough, 26, from Blackley, Elliott Harrison, 20, from Little Hulton, Sam Chadwick, 28, from Droylsden and Kaileb Harrison, 21, from Little Hulton, had earlier pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery.

Blakeborough was handed an additional seven years while Elliott Harrison received an extra seven years and three months.

Chadwick was sentenced to an additional five years, while Kaileb Harrison was handed an additional four years eight months.

The group’s robbery rampage lasted for more than two months and targeted cash-in-transit vans between July and September 2015.

They lay in wait for the delivery vans then threatened security staff before stealing thousands of pounds.

In one robbery they stole almost £15,000 cash while in another they escaped with £20,000. 

Blakeborough, Elliott Harrison, Chadwick and Kaileb Harrison were previously jailed in August 2016 for conspiracy to commit domestic burglaries.

Kaileb Harrison was jailed for six years, four months and Elliott Harrison was jailed for four years, nine months.

Blakeborough and Chadwick were also convicted of possession of class A drug with intent to supply and jailed for 12 years and nine years respectively.

Two other men, Leo Abram, 24, from Worsley, and Matthew Royle, 37, from Blackley, were also convicted of conspiracy to commit domestic burglaries and were jailed for five years and four years, six months respectively.

Between October 2015 and February 2016, these men carried out a number of burglaries across Greater Manchester and further afield in Bollington and Lymm in Cheshire, Chorley and Clayton-le-Woods, Lancashire.

In one incident they stole a Porsche 911 before stopping to pose for photos that they posted on their Facebook account.

DCI Estelle Mathieson said: “This gang left a trail of misery across three police force areas over a period of seven months.

“Not only did they target and steal from cash delivery vans, leaving drivers traumatised, but they ruined peoples’ lives with domestic burglaries all over the region.

“I hope it of some small comfort to their numerous victims that this gang’s own stupidity and arrogance in posting a photo of a stolen Porsche on their own Facebook page contributed to their own downfall.”