Two teenagers who are members of a hardcore gang of car thieves have been locked up for more than two years for stealing luxury vehicles from one of Aberdeen’s plushest neighbourhoods.
Earlier this month it took a jury just 40 minutes to convict Conor Smart and Jason Grant of taking a £100,000 Lamborghini and a £70,000 BMW from outside a house in Oak hill Grange as their owners slept inside.
The pair had been on trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and had also denied stealing a television, a handbag containing £200, a wallet with £300 in it, four iPhones and three iPads.
They were found guilty of all the charges against them by a majority verdict.
Earlier this morning 17-year-old Grant was sentenced to a period of 30 months detention. While his co accused, who has already spent the equivalent of a nine month sentence on remand, was ordered to spend 22 months behind bars for the offences.
Before the start of the trial Smart, 18, had admitted a fifth offence – threatening police officers with an axe.
Both teenagers were on bail when the offences were committed last year.
They denied the offences and lodged special defences of alibi, claiming they were at home on the night of August 4 when the white Lamborghini Gallardo and black BMW X5 were stolen.
Grant had also lodged a special defence of incrimination, claiming the theft had been carried out by another man, whose whereabouts are unknown.