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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Rebecca Day

The moment thieves stole a £10,000 caravan from a driveway in the middle of the day

This is the moment a brazen thief stole a caravan from a driveway in Salford as the homeowner worked in the garage.

In the CCTV footage, the offender spins the vehicle around, before his accomplice reverses a car into the driveway.

The caravan is then attached to the grey Vauxhall Vectra, before the thieves drive away from the scene.

The Swift Challenger was stolen from Lee Wallwork's driveway on Greenleach Lane at 12.15pm on Monday.

Lee, 49, described the theft as 'sickening'.

The property manager was planning to sell the vehicle in the near future and so had transferred the insurance to another caravan.

He said the offenders seemed experienced - the CCTV footage showed three men pulling up at the house several times before the theft took place.

Each time they returned they would remove an item from the vehicle, such as wheel locks or the charging cable that it was plugged into.

"It shows the confidence they had, the way they spin it round so fast. I think they do it regularly. There's nothing more you can do.

"It's just so sickening. It's still upsetting. You play it over in your mind. You are full of 'what if's.

"It's (the thought that) someone has driven off with £10,000 of your money. It's the way you see them treat it as well."

During the entire incident, Lee's wife Julie Wallwork, 47, was working in the garage, oblivious as to what was going on.

But, he said, it might have been a blessing in disguise that she didn't hear anything, as the group were armed with crowbars and wheelbraces.

"She's feisty, it's a worry if you come across them and want to challenge them, that's the scary thought."

A spokesman for GMP confirmed they were called to the incident.

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