Overview

• Roberts was sentenced on July 10 to three years in prison and handed a four-year two-month driving ban by Shrewsbury Crown Court.
• He pleaded guilty in May to aggravated vehicle taking, dangerous driving, fraud by false representation and two counts of driving while disqualified.
• Officers traced McDonald’s receipts and CCTV footage to tie Roberts to the theft of a BMW on February 15 and a Citroën C3 in early March.
• During the second chase, Roberts reached speeds up to 100 mph on the wrong side of the A5 dual carriageway and narrowly avoided collisions with heavy goods vehicles.
• Police praised multi-agency collaboration between roads policing and the Serious Acquisitive Crime Team for leveraging vehicle data and fast-food surveillance to curb rising key-on-premises thefts.