Faces of kidnap thug Bowskill’s partners in a £1m crime spree
DETENTION: From left, Travis Hindmarsh, Josh Healy and Barry Kew Moss
POLICE have released photographs of members of a gang who stole high-performance cars and burgled homes across the East Midlands as part of a crime spree worth more than £1 million.
The gang included Chay Bowskill, who was already serving a sentence for kidnapping his former girlfriend, Angel Lynn.
He was given an additional four years for his role in the burglary and theft plot.
Bowskill and three accomplices carried out their crimes while their victims were asleep, burgling 41 homes across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Rutland and stealing cars such as Audis, Mercedes and BMWs.
The cars they stole were worth a total of £1,153,500. A number, collectively worth £373,000, are still missing.
The gang took them by stealing car keys from inside their victim’s homes.
The men appeared at Leicester Crown Court on Friday, March 25
to be sentenced, having pleaded guilty to involvement in the conspiracy to commit the burglaries between June and October 2019.
The court heard Bowskill, 20, of Syston, worked with 18-year-old Josh Healy, of Laurel Close, Mountsorrel, Barry Kew Moss, 22, and 19-year-old Travis Hindmarsh, both of no fixed address.
Healy and Hindmarsh, both juveniles at the time of the offending, were each sentenced to four years detention. Kew Moss was jailed for six years and three months. Prosecutor Christopher Jeyes told the hearing many of the victims woke the next day to find their vehicles were missing from outside their homes.
About 10 homes were burgled in the Loughborough area, with several more in Leicester. Mr Jeyes said: “Some of the stolen vehicles were used in subsequent offences, with registration plates changed.”
He said others were targeted in Coalville, Whitwick, Cossington, Sileby, Markfield, Shepshed, Wymeswold, Tur Langton, Tilton on the Hill, Great Bowden, Fleckney, Syston, Queniborough, Kibworth
and Thistleton in Rutland, as well as Wysall, Keyworth and East Leake, in Nottinghamshire.
Michael Auty QC said: “These vehicles were expressly targeted because of their prestige nature, high performance and intrinsic high value.
“To have a gang come to their home in the dead of night, armed with a crowbar or other items, must have resulted in very real and possibly life-lasting, distress.
“What you did affected their enjoyment of life and their homes and, most important of all, their sense of security in the one place they’re entitled to feel the most safe and secure.”
Bowskill was convicted by a jury, in an unrelated trial, of kidnapping his then 19-year-old girlfriend, Angel Lynn, who suffered permanent brain damage in a fall from the van she was abducted in, in September 2020.
He was also convicted of coercive and controlling behaviour and perverting the course of justice, for which he was jailed for 12 years after the sentence was increased on appeal.