A despicable burglary has been caught on film. Footage captures three men getting into the rear of a Barnardo’s charity shop.
After breaking in at night the gang, which included Stefan Moores, from Stockport, and two accomplices, smashed their way through a concrete wall to get into the Tesco store next door and steal £10,000 worth of cigarettes and stamps.
The males can be seen on camera arriving at Chester’s Weston Grove shopping centre shortly after 11 p.m. They enter the charity shop by making their way to the rear of the stores. On Sunday, November 19, 2023, Moores and two other individuals drove from Manchester to Chester in a stolen Hyundai i30 that was registered with fictitious licence plates, according to information presented to Chester Crown Court.
During their enquiries detectives discovered traces of Moores’ DNA on the Tesco cigarette display. Moores appeared at Chester Crown Court last week where he was sentenced to three-years in prison. The 34-year-old of Breacon Towers in Brinnington, Stockport, had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary other than a dwelling
During their enquiries detectives also found traces of Moores’ DNA were on a screwdriver in the stolen car which was recovered by Greater Manchester Police in the Wythenshawe area on Thursday March 7th 2023.
Moores was then taken into custody on Thursday, April 8, 2024, at his Brinnington residence. Officers searching the home found shoes that matched the CCTV footage taken at the scene. Moores was prosecuted in connection with the occurrences after his arrest, and when he appeared in court, he entered a guilty plea.
“It is evident that this was a well-planned attack,” stated Chester Poractive Policing Team Detective Constable James Wright. That night, Moores and his cronies set out for Cheshire with the intention of robbing as much as they could.
“Their primary objective was to utilise the charity shop as a convenient means of accessing the nearby Tesco Express, where they could pilfer stamps and cigarettes.” They saw the money from the charity store safe as nothing more than a bonus, while the charity could have used £500—a substantial sum of money—to assist underprivileged kids.
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