Three burglars from London have been jailed after they followed a couple home from they airport and ambushed them while they were unpacking from their holiday. Arturo Mendivil-Valvin, 49, Arturo Flores-Marquez, 59, and Jhony Ramirez-Loayza, 56, all were sentenced to two years in prison after the terrifying incident.
Caernarfon Crown Court heard the trio followed the chauffeur-driven couple back to their home in Wrexham from Manchester Airport on December 1, 2024. 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, The Mirror reports.
The burglars took the opportunity to enter the couple’s home when the homeowner had run upstairs to put something away. When he came back down, he found one of the burglars exiting his hallway.
Jhony Ramirez-Loayza, 56, of Hemberton Road, was sentenced to two years
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The chauffeur had left at this point, so the man contacted his driver to ask if he had taken the bags. The driver said he hadn’t and returned to the house.
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, Clapham, Mendivil-Valvin, 49, of Delta Street, Bethnal Green, and Flores-Marquez, 59, of Upper Clapton Road, Clapton.
Arturo Flores-Marquez, 59, of Upper Clapton Road, was sentenced to two years in prison
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The trio all admitted burglary and were all jailed for two years and are likely to be deported.
A judge said their crime had had a considerable effect on the victims. “She has lost her sense of peace of mind and her sense of safety in her home,” said Mr Whitty. The couple have a child with special needs and now struggle to find carers to come to their home, the court was told.
An interpreter told the court Ramirez-Loayza (who hired the car) is a Peruvian national living near Madrid in Spain with his wife and elderly parents. The court also heard Mendivil-Valvin is a Cuban national with a wife in Guatemala. He had entered the UK illegally and is anxious to support his family.
Laura McMillan, defending Flores-Marquez, who is also Peruvian, said he had shown genuine remorse. He has four children, one daughter has mobility problems. The judge His Honour Timothy Petts said the men had shown a degree of planning. Two had visitors’ visas and one is in the UK illegally. All would serve half of their sentences then be deported if they hadn’t been deported by then already, he added.
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