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September 15, 2016
The phrase "follow the money" took on a more-than-usually literal meaning in Manchester, England, after less-then-usually bright thieves blew up an ATM at a gas station, grabbed 25,000 pounds ($33,000) from the safe and fled, leaving a tell-tale trail of banknotes behind.
According to a report by the Manchester Evening News, police quickly determined the direction of the car in which Christopher Bowyer, 32, and Christopher Myatt, 20, fled. The pair were then located and pursued by a police helicopter.
The two Christophers were eventually found clinging to a gantry above the M56, unable to climb down for fear of falling onto the motorway.
Both Bowyer and Myatt pled guilty to the Jan. 11 crime and were sentenced last week to eight and seven-and-a-half years, respectively.
In sentencing the two men, the judge remarked that they could have endangered lives given the close proximity of the gas station to a residential area.
Meanwhile, a few hundred miles south of Manchester, in the suburbs west of London, Police are trying to track down the perpetrators of four more recent robberies. All have been carried out since Aug. 10 in the borough of Hounslow — three of them involving explosions (including two at gas stations).
