Carnoustie and Perth ATM gang raiders jailed

SENTENCES: Seven men receive term totalling 92 years after series of ram raids using explosives

A gang of Italian Job cash machine raiders has been jailed for more than 90 years after a series of strikes across the UK which netted around half a million pounds.

The seven-strong team of gangsters blew up ATMs and used 4×4 vehicles to rip them from shops across the country, including Perth and Carnoustie.

The gang, who were sentenced to between 10 and 19 years, hid stolen high performance cars in the back of a stolen lorry.

Stolen high performance Audi and Mercedes cars were used as getaway vehicles, with the criminals driving them up ramps into the back of an articulated lorry in an elaborate scheme to evade capture.

The gang was finally snared in a dramatic showdown in the car park of Arbroath’s McDonald’s fast food restaurant last February, just hours after tearing the ATM through the front of Carnoustie’s Co-op store.

Armed police fired tyre deflation rounds to disable a stolen Mercedes after some of the gang tried to ram their way to freedom in the morning drama, with notes from the Carnoustie machine littering the footwell of the getaway car. The gang blew up some ATMs. Last month saw five men convicted at Liverpool Crown Court after a fourmonth trial centred on Operation Titan, with the gang of seven sentenced yesterday for their crimes, which included two further ATM strikes in the north east of Scotland.

The gang hid stolen high performance cars in the back of a stolen lorry

The gang comprised, clockwise, from top left: Andrew White, Nanu Miah, Carl Cavanagh, Anthony White, Anthony Conroy, Michael Galea and Gary Carey.