Police find two men with £45k of vapes just one MINUTE away from scene of sickening crowbar attack
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTwo men have been jailed after beating a van owner with a crowbar and stealing £45,000 worth of vapes from his vehicle. Karwan Salar, 31, and Ribar Karim, 35, forced the victim to stop the van and dragged him out before attacking him with a crowbar and fleeing with the van.
The pair didn't make it far, though, and were found by officers just a minute away from the scene trying to transfer the vapes into a waiting Audi.
The pair were sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for the robbery and possessing an offensive weapon at Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday (July 18). Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. The court heard how Karim and Salar had been driving an Audi A5 along Waterloo Road in Cheetham Hill on January 11 of this year, when they intercepted the Mercedes sprint van.
They forced the vehicle to stop before Salar, of West Drayton, London, started to threaten the victim, asking him to hand over his keys.
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