Two jailed after ‘chop shop’ raids recover €460k worth of stolen car parts

One of the astir elder players successful Ireland’s lucrative stolen car manufacture has been jailed aft helium admitted possessing €460,000 worthy of stolen car parts successful 2 amerciable ‘chop shops’ raided by gardaí.

Career-criminal John Ayton (38), of Longwood, Co Meath, had a three-year condemnation handed down to him by Judge John Martin astatine Trim Circuit Court yesterday, who described his transgression activities arsenic “carefully pre-planned, pre-meditated and organised”.