Overview
- Ryan Wilkinson, 25, Adrian Askin, 28, and Cyle Jenkins, 23, were sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court to 9 years 4 months, 10 years, and 9 years 4 months respectively.
- All three pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated burglary, one burglary, and two counts of theft of a motor vehicle.
- The gang posed as police to force entry, assaulted a woman who refused to share her car’s immobiliser code, and in a separate raid threatened a man with an air rifle and his dog with a crowbar.
- After two Volkswagen Golf Rs were taken, officers tracked the convoy on false plates, deployed a stinger, and arrested two men found under a hot‑tub lid and a third hiding in a trailer in Doncaster.
- A joint investigation by North Yorkshire, Humberside and South Yorkshire police used CCTV and footwear matches, including identifying a suspect by a limp, as victims’ statements described ongoing anxiety and loss of safety.