Gang jailed after cash machine attack caught on CCTV

A gang who used an angle grinder to cut through the shutters of a post office as part of a raid have been jailed, after it was caught on CCTV.

Footage shows Simon Phillips using a saw to attack security screens at a post office in Wollaston in the early hours of 1 September before Terry McMahon smashes the door with a sledgehammer.

They targeted the store along with two other men, Adrian Peach and Dennis Carr, using a large crowbar in an attempt to open a cash machine.

• See footage of the raid below (Video from West Midlands Police)

The shop manager confronted the men, who rushed from the scene after realising that police were on the way.

They left the scene in a stolen Audi, but were soon seen by police. Phillips and McMahon were found by officers lying low in a hedgerow.

Peach and Carr were spotted ducking into the foyer of a block of flats and later arrested in nearby Bucknall Crescent.

All four admitted conspiracy to commit burglary with Phillips, from Beckbury Road in Weoley Castle, and Peach from Kitwood Avenue, Tamworth, also admitting another shop attack at Snappy Tomato Pizza in Chelmsley Wood on 18 June.

They were jailed for eight years each while McMahon, from Rudyard Grove, Kitts Green, and Carr from Princess Anne Drive in Rubery were handed sentences of six years