[Cherry Christmas]

Originally Posted by smeagol

for a robbery like that if capable which they must be, they should be going for millions.
5 years prison for 20k means they'd earn 4k a year if caught they'd wish they got a paper round instead lol,

Yeah I know what you mean but I don't think it is the first time they have tried this ..


olice are understood to be looking at two previous raids in Greater Manchester to see if they may be linked to the same criminal gang.
Thieves dug a 100ft tunnel to steal cash from an ATM in Fallowfield in January 2012
The Eccles Tesco tunnel raid is the third time a 'mole gang' has targeted cash machines in Greater Manchester over recent years.

Police are understood to be looking at the two previous raids to see if they may be linked to the same criminal group.

In August 2007, a gang dug a 40 ft tunnel in an apparent attempt to reach a branch of Blockbuster in the Fallowfield shopping precinct.

The tunnel was discovered by workmen when it was just 15 ft short of its target, which was assumed to be an ATM machine.

Builders accidentally broke through into the tunnel during some work on electric cabling and alerted police. The building was filled in with concrete to prevent it from being used.

But the tunnellers were not caught and four-and-a-half years later , in January 2012, there was a successful underground raid on the same store.

This time the thieves dug a 100ft tunnel under a busy car park and drilled through 15 inches of concrete before stealing thousands of pounds from the Blockbuster ATM.