TWO MEN released from jail just weeks earlier went on a burglary spree in Meirionnydd, stealing thousands of pounds worth of stock from small businesses.

After serving time for previous burglaries and being freed from jail, the pair carried out four more burglaries in three days, Caernarfon Crown Court heard this week.

Anthony Jones, 30, and Llewellyn Luce, both of Pontypool, admitted the offences and were sent back to jail for four-and-a-half years and three years respectively.

Prosecutor Emmalyne Downing said the duo stole cars, bikes, power tools, a moped, cash and other items in the raids at Talsarnau, Llanbedr near Harlech, Bontddu and Porthmadog, in early April.

A car valued at £31,000 and a moped worth £2,500 were stolen in a burglary at Talsarnau, while nine bicycles and cash were stolen from Snowdonia Cycles in Llanbedr.

At Clogau Motors, at Bontddu, near Dolgellau, power tools valued at between £10,000 and £25,000 were among items taken.

Miss Downing said: “The tool chest at the garage was drilled into to open it. Officers said whoever did it seemed to know what they were looking for.”

Some of the items have since been recovered, she said.

The pair were linked by forensic evidence. and caught after police trawled through hours of CCTV footage.

See the full story in today’s Meirionnydd edition of the Cambrian News