Jail for church raider
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Romanian Remus Tudorache, 27, was jailed for five years for helping to run two gangs which stole lead worth more than £100,000 from rural churches.
Tudorache, of Coventry, admitted the thefts between April and May 2015 and March and May 21 this year.
St Mary’s Church at Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, was targeted twice by the gang. The court heard that the congregation at the 13th century church were left “crushed and devastated” by the theft.
Sentencing him at Norwich Crown Court, Judge Maureen Bacon told the raider: “In one case it was so substantial it has affected whether the church can continue to be viable or whether it has to be closed.”