Trio of burglars follow couple home from airport then strike while they're unpacking
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A trio of burglars followed a couple home from the airport and then ambushed them whilst they were unpacking from their holiday. Jhony Ramirez-Loayza, Arturo Mendivil-Valvin and Arturo Flores-Marquez have been jailed following the terrifying ordeal. The gang left the couple to feel unsafe in their own home, said a prosecutor.
Caernarfon Crown Court heard that they followed the couple back from Manchester Airport. The pair, who live in Wrexham, North Wales, were chaufer-driven home on December 1 last year. Prosecutor Michael Whitty said the man and his chauffeur had taken the bags out of the car and placed a briefcase between the door and porch.
When the homeowner ran upstairs to put some items away, he returned to find one of the suspects exiting his hallway. At this point, the chauffeur had already left. The man then contacted his driver, who said he hadn't taken the luggage and returned to the property, the court was told. Mr Whitty said the briefcase contained 400 US dollars, £100, Thai currency, sensitive business documents and a banking fob. Police were alerted and officers traced a hired car which had followed the victims from the airport. It had been rented by one of the defendants - Jhony Ramirez-Loayza.
The following day, on December 2, police then stopped their hire car on the M602 between Salford and Manchester, and arrested all three men inside. They were Ramirez-Loayza, 56, of Hemberton Road, London, Mendivil-Valvin, 49, of Delta Street, London and Flores-Marquez, 59, of Upper Clapton Road, Clapton, London.
