Five men sentenced for string of ram raid offences

Men from Highgate and Kilburn who stole more than £465,000 in a series of ram-raid burglaries have been jailed. Gary Lynch, 32, of Tudor Close, Highgate, and Omar Bakali, 28, of Hopefield Avenue, Kilburn, were part of an organised crime group which smashed into shops using cars and burgled designer bags and clothes. Lynch, Bakali and three other men were sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday - December 21 - after pleading guilty to conspiring to burgle three premises in Westminster last year.