A Black Country gang have been convicted of using stolen cars to raid cash points at banks and shops across the country.

The men netted £700k after striking nine times within a year, even boasting at one point that police had no 'concrete evidence' against them.

Daniel Hickenbottom, Noel Reilly, Craig Howell, Simon Pagett and Oliver Matthews were eventually snared after police officer spotted the gang’s stolen Audi being transported on a low loader back to the Midlands.

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To aid their crime spree, the masked men used specialist equipment including angle grinders and the jaws of life, which are usually deployed by firefighters to rescue people trapped in cars.

They fixed fake number plates to stolen high-p

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