2023-07-20 17:55:50
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 2 hours ago, Updated 2 hours ago
Using a stolen tractor, he left with a trailer holding chocolate eggs from the British brand Cadbury worth more than 35,000 euros. m.studio / stock.adobe.com
Using a stolen tractor, Joby Pool had stolen a trailer full of chocolate eggs worth 35,000 euros.
He had made the trunk by pulling with a tractor a trailer loaded with 200,000 chocolate eggs: for this unusual case, a Briton was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison.
Joby Pool, 32, broke into a warehouse in Telford, central England, at 7 p.m. local time on February 11. Using a stolen tractor, he left with a trailer holding chocolate eggs from the British brand Cadbury worth more than 35,000 euros, including nearly 200,000 popular “Creme eggs» in chocolate filled with sweet cream.
‘Sincere remorse’
He then joined a nearby highway before surrendering to the police with his hands up, according to the account of the events presented before Shrewsbury Crown Court, where he was on trial. He had pleaded guilty to theft, property damage and driving without insurance, and his lawyer Debra White insisted during the hearing on the “sincere remorse“expressed by the defendant who accepted”full responsibilityof his actions.
She explained that he was going through a difficult period in his personal life, having led him to dive into drugs and alcohol, without convincing judge Anthony Lowe. The latter noted that the operation had required “extensive planning» and said to himself «quite convincedthat other people were involved.
At the time of his arrest, local police bragged on Twitter that they had “saved easterthanks to the arrest of the burglar. In addition to his prison sentence, Joby Pool had six points removed from his license for driving without insurance.
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