Overview
- Five men admitted conspiracy to commit burglary and to possess criminal property at Chester Crown Court on November 28 and January 6, while a woman pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess criminal property on January 7.
- Two defendants, Endrit Nikolli and Sidorjan Lleshi, also admitted separate Staffordshire burglaries from December 2023 and March 2024.
- Sentencing is scheduled for February 20 at Chester Crown Court, with Jade Tubb released on bail and the other five remanded.
- Investigators linked at least 44 high‑value break‑ins across Cheshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, West Mercia and Cleveland, with stolen goods valued at more than £1 million.
- The probe uncovered a shared modus operandi using ladders to reach first‑floor entries, coffee‑shop meetups, ANPR‑flagged cars tied to suspects, DNA from Nikolli, and raids that recovered designer goods, phones with images and map links, and letters calling a pair ‘Bonnie and Clyde’.