Three teenagers jailed over bank machine robberies
Three Romanian teenagers have been jailed for more than a year each following a spate of cash machine robberies across Scotland.
Three Romanian teenagers have been jailed for more than a year each following a spate of cash machine robberies across Scotland.
Felix Stoica, 19, Forbin Geblescu and Piper Dumitri - both aged 18 targeted ATM machines across the country last year, pocketing a total of £1,100.
The gang's victims included an 84-year-old pensioner in Port Glasgow and a woman at HSBC on Argyle Street in April last year.
The trio appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Thursday and pled guilty to a charge of assault and robbery at the HSBC branch when they pushed past the woman, stealing £200.
Stoica pled guilty to a further four charges of theft, Geblescu and Dumitri to another three charges of stealing cash on April the 21st and 22nd at various Scottish bank machines.
On April the 21st at an ATM on Princes Street, Port Glasgow, an 84-year-old woman tried to use the ATM when Dumitri told her “I’m here to fix this”. He touched the machine as though fixing it while holding what she thought was a tablet. When Mrs Connachan reported the broken machine to Lloyds TSB, they confirmed it was working and £200 had been taken from her account.
They are all to serve 14 months at a young offender's institute.