Church roof gang jailed for total of more than 22 years
Published: 19:49, 06 January 2021
| Updated: 19:50, 06 January 2021
Four men have been jailed for a combined total of 22 years and seven months for the theft of lead from churches across the country.
The four defendants stripped tonnes of lead from a mixture of Grade I and Grade II churches between May 2018 and March 2020 – costing 36 churches a combined total of almost £2.1million. The amount the defendants would have made from scrapping the lead would have been much lower than the cost to the churches.