Flying Squad bust angle grinder robbery gang

Dramatic footage captured the moment a raider cuts through a shop’s metal shutters with an angle grinder during a £2m crime wave.

Lewis Northover, 31, Scott Logan, 36, Sean Bennett, 38 and Sachon Morgan, 33, were part of a gang who carried out at least 100 burglaries across London and Hertfordshire.

Bennett

CCTV footage released from the scene of one of the attacks shows Northover, Logan and Bennett turning up outside a Sainsbury’s local store in a stolen black Audi RS6 late at night.

One of the thieves uses a sledge hammer to smash windows while his accomplice uses an angle grinder to cut through shutters.

Once inside the shop they grab large amounts of booze and cigarettes behind the counter before cramming the loot into large industrial sacks.

Footage shows one of the thieves dragging the bags along the pavement outside.

The burglars targeted dozens of convenience stores, electronics shops and jewellery stores in the spree.

Stolen property including gems and silverware was often stored in remote location like a churchyard so they could return to collect it.

Morgan

Flying Squad detectives eventually placed the men under surveillance and followed their stolen vehicles – an Audi RS6 and VW T-Roc – to a barn near Waltham Abbey.

Northover, Logan and Morgan targeted an electronics store in Northwest London on 9 January this year.

When they returned with the loot to the storage location, officers were lying in wait.

Logan and Morgan were arrested in possession of the stolen goods, an angle grinder used in the burglaries and high powered electric bikes.

Bennett was later caught with £80,000 worth of stolen silver taken from a store in Golders Green at his home.

He claimed that he had been paid to store them in his outbuilding.

Northover, of Brent, Logan, of Islington, Morgan, of Cricklewood and Bennett, of Hatfield, admitted conspiracy to commit burglary and handling stolen goods.

Logan

Northover and Logan were both jailed for six years and nine months.

Bennett was sentenced to four years and ten months and Morgan was locked up for two years and seven months.

The offences were carried out between January 2020 and January 2025.

Detective Chief Inspector Scott Mather, of the Met’s Flying Squad, who led the investigation, said: ‘Northover, Logan, Bennett and Morgan were part of an organised criminal network who horrified shopkeepers and communities with a series of raids.

‘They thought that acting quickly and escaping in high-powered vehicles meant that they were above the law. They were wrong.

‘Officers tracked them down through diligent forensic work, digging through CCTV and carrying out surveillance.

‘Their hard work shows how the force is taking the fight to criminal gangs and committed to supporting the local communities they intimidate and threaten.’