Gang JAILED for 12 years for stealing fleet of CEMENT MIXERS worth £1million

A gang has been jailed for 12 years for stealing a fleet of commercial cement mixers worth more than £1million.

Patrick Bailey, 52, Darren Pinion, 36, and Leslie Delamere, 51, drove off 13 trucks and two cement mixers from business across London and the south east.                                                                                

Leslie Delamere        Patrick Bailey           Darren Pinion

The trio were caught when police trailed a stolen cement mixing lorry to Bailey's scrapyard on Five Oaks Lane, in Redbridge, north east London.Patrick Bailey, 52, (pictured left) Darren Pinion, 36, (right) and another man, Leslie Delamere, 51, stole and drove off 13 trucks and two cement mixers worth more than £1million from businesses across the South East.Delemere, who lived in a caravan on an industrial estate in Bow at the time of the thefts was also found to have a stun gun and a substantial amount of class B drugs when his home was searched.

The gang came to the attention of the police when they were spotted surveying a cement mixing yard in Silvertown Way, Newham, on November 17 last year.

They forced their way into the yard and stole two cement mixing lorries worth a total of £360,000.

Police followed as the lorries were driven to two separate locations overnight to ensure neither were fitted with a vehicle tracker.

One of the vehicles stolen by the thieves

The first was driven to Havering, while the second was taken to Bailey's scrapyard.

Both vehicles had been fitted with false number plates.

All three men were jailed yesterday after admitting to stealing the 'prolific' haul of 13 lorries and mixers.

Bailey, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal and was sentenced to four years and 11 months.

 

Hitler's secret cognac and champagne stash found beneath German restaurant

A famous German restaurant has found a secret stash of luxury liquor that belonged to Adolf Hitler.

The Saxony restaurant uncovered cognac and champagne in its cellars stored deep underground to protect it from Allied air raids in Berlin.                  

Owner Silvio Stelzer discovered the pricey find in cellars under the gardens of his restaurant at a historic villa on the grounds of the Moritzburg Water Palace in Saxony.

Although Hitler rarely drank, it is thought the booze was used for entertaining.

Mr Stelzer claims records also show the Nazi dictator's staff sent cheese, salami, chocolate and cigarettes to be stored in the cellars at a time when the German population was starving due to wartime food shortages.

Workmen stumbled across the incredible find while renovating the garden grounds. 

Moritzburg Palace,in Dresden,Germany where the drinks were found

Mr Stelzer told German newspaper Bild: "At the end of 1944 Adolf Hitler had his household food and drink stores moved to my cellar by his steward Kannegiesser, as they were not safe because of air raids on Berlin.

"Nothing remained of the food and consumables. After May 8, 1945, Russian troops looted everything.

"What will become of them is unclear."

In the US, Hitler's lover's knickers have also allegedly gone on sale, reports the Telegraph.

Eva Braun's salmon-coloured underwear embroidered with the initials EB are on sale for $7,500.

Last year, best-selling author Marting Amis claimed Adolf Hitler probably had sex with his mistress without touching her or taking his clothes off.

Amis believes the Nazi leader was asexual and "so fanatical about cleanliness" he kept Eva at arm's length.

Amis, 65, told fans at the Cheltenham Literature Festival that the truth about Hitler's sexuality remains a "black hole".

Hitler watercolours to go under the hammer

Watercolour paintings and drawings by Adolf Hitler from about 100 years ago are to go up for auction in southern Germany this month, an auction house said Tuesday.

Some of the works, which date from 1904 to 1922, are signed A. Hitler, the catalogue of Nuremberg-based Weidler auctioneers showed on its website.

The 14 watercolours and drawings are expected to go under the hammer between June 18 and 20 for between 1,000 euros and €45,000 each.

The most expensive is a painting of King Ludwig II's Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, now a tourist magnet.

In November a watercolour painted by a young Hitler in 1914 of the city hall in Munich sold for 130,000 euros at a sale organised by the same auction house.

The buyer wished to remain anonymous.

As a budding young artist, Hitler applied to the Vienna Academy of Art but was rejected. He continued to paint however, copying images from postcards that he sold to tourists.

Experts consider his work to be of mediocre quality.