Car thieves nailed by WhatsAp boasts

A gang of thieves loitered around West End carparks before smashing their way into luxury motors, a court heard. Gareth Davies, 40, Ian Matthews, 32, Jake Collasi O’Connor, 31, James Saddington, 33, and Luke Stephen, 38, helped themselves to suitcases, designer handbags and passports. They looked for well-heeled victims putting expensive goods in their cars and used bricks to smash the windows during the crime wave in 2022. But they were caught after they bragged about their exploits in a…