The same cars were stolen by a gang of brazen thieves three times in a fortnight - twice from secure garages after police had recovered them from the earlier thefts. Other stolen cars were used to ramraid the compounds where the seized vehicles were being stored, and the hot wheels were then driven away before forensic tests could be done.
The gang stole vehicles and licence plates from car parks, people's driveways, and streets around Swansea and Neath, and one of the stolen cars was even used to take a short break to a holiday park in Somerset.
Swansea Crown Court heard that when one of the thrice-stolen cars was recovered for the final time by police, the driver told officers "his mates would just steal it back again".
