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Two men behind £10,000 Tesco raid jailed

News | Richard Gurner | Published: 15:11, Tuesday February 23rd, 2021.
Last updated: 15:12, Tuesday February 23rd, 2021

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Craig McCaffrey, left, and Wayne Snell have been jailed for raiding Tesco supermarkets
Craig McCaffrey, left, and Wayne Snell have been jailed for raiding Tesco supermarkets

Two men who broke into a Tesco supermarket and helped themselves to £10,000 worth of cigarettes have been jailed.

Wayne Snell, 43 of Trowbridge Road, Cardiff, and Craig McCaffrey, 40 of De Bawdrip Road, Tremorfa, twice broke into the Caerphilly Crossways Tesco store on Gallagher Retail Park in November 2017 and January 2018.

During the first break-in, on November 22, 2017, the pair stole £2,800 worth of electrical items, while the second raid on January 8, 2018, netted them £10,000 worth of cigarettes.

The pair also admitted to a third Tesco raid – at Newport’s Harlech Road Retail Park – on February 1, 2018, where they stole mobile phones worth almost £4,500.

Snell was sentenced to a total of 30 months in prison, while McCaffrey was jailed for 21 months at a hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday, February 22.

Thousands of pounds worth of cigarettes stolen from Tesco supermarket in Caerphilly

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