‘Key emulator’ gang drove away with cars worth £1.7m

Car thieves used a ‘key emulator’ to drive off with motors worth up to £1.7m while their owners slept, a court heard. Mohammed Ahmed, 30, Muhammed Ali, 34, Kabir Ahmed, 35, and Paul Barringer, 33, were linked to at least 73 car thefts across London in just seven months. They carried out reconnaissance missions in residential streets during the day looking for SUVs, such as Toyota Rav 4s, before returning in the dead of night to take them. Footage shows…