Remember this crash in Shrewsbury town centre? Full story revealed as car thief who caused it is jailed
A prolific car thief who smashed into a police car in Shrewsbury town centre and led officers on a 45-minute chase in North Wales has been jailed.
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Callum Roberts, aged 20, went on a vehicle crime spree last summer, stealing a car from a Chinese restaurant delivery driver in Shrewsbury and another from a woman in Church Stretton, who had used her grandfather's inheritance to buy her car.
He was taken into custody having crashed the woman’s Audi into a police car after a chase in Shrewsbury on an evening when the town was busy with pubgoers.
Shrewsbury Crown Court was told how Roberts first stole a Ford Focus from a friend’s mum in late June.
The victim had left her son at home and her car in the driveway. Her son invited Roberts, another man and two women around, and that was when Roberts stole the keys.
He was seen around a week later on July 3 in Market Drayton in the Focus, doing donuts in the B&M Bargains car park in Cheshire Street and driving in Morrison’s car park in Maer Lane.
The following week, on July 9, a Chinese takeaway was ordered to Drinkwater Street in Frankwell, Shrewsbury.
A female delivery driver was dispatched with the food and when she arrived, she left the keys in her Vauxhall Astra with the engine running.
She was told by two men to go to the back of the property before one of them rushed out, got into the car and drove off.
