A small boat illegal immigrant and two Peruvians who followed a couple’s chauffeur-driven car from Manchester Airport before burgling their Welsh home have been jailed.
The trio were today each sentenced to two years behind bars after they admitted stealing a briefcase said to have contained $400, £100, Thai currency and sensitive business documents near Wrexham in North Wales.
The gang members were Jhony Ramirez-Loayza, 56, a Peruvian national living near Madrid with his wife, and Arturo Mendivil-Valvin, 49, a Cuban who the court heard arrived in Britain on a small boat from France and whose wife is in Guatemala.
The third defendant was Arturo Flores-Marquez, 59, a Peruvian who also moved to Spain.
The brazen crime happened on December 1 when the three crooks devised a plan to hire a car in order to follow passengers home and steal from them.
They then tailed a couple in their chauffeur-driven car to their home before grabbing the briefcase which had been left in the hallway.
Judge Timothy Petts told the trio, who appeared at Caernarfon crown court on a video link from Berwyn jail at Wrexham: ‘On December 1 you were at Manchester Airport and had hired a car between you.
‘Your plan was clearly to follow passengers home and steal from them. You followed one couple home to Wrexham, which took about an hour.
Arturo Mendivil-Valvin, 49, a Cuban national who arrived illegally in the UK on a small boat from France, has been jailed for burgling a Welsh home after following a couple’s chauffeur-driven car from Manchester Airport
Peruvians Johny Ramirez-Loayza, 56, (left) and Arturo Flores-Marquez, 59, (right) have also been jailed after they admitted stealing a briefcase
‘They unloaded their luggage from the chauffeur-driven car.’
Two of the accused approached the house and one went inside and picked up the briefcase before fleeing.
The defendants kept the cash and the documents were understood to have been recovered by police.
Judge Petts said to the men: ‘What is still unclear is how the three of you met and agreed to burgle someone’s house. Two of you are in this country on visitors’ visas. One of you is here illegally.
‘All three of you will be deported and, I think, you are all going to be banned from coming back to the UK.’
The offence had a ‘considerable’ impact on a family who felt unsafe in their home.
Prosecutor Michael Whitty said the lunchtime burglary happened on December 1.
Police inquiries identified a hired car following the couple almost 50 miles from the airport.
The next day the car was stopped on the M602 in Greater Manchester and the intruders arrested.
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