Three e-bikes worth £20k stolen from rural garage in Devon
Three electric bikes collectively worth nearly £20,000 have been stolen from a garage in west Devon, police have said.The burglary took place place at a rural property in Venton near Drewsteignton between 01:00 and 02:00 BST on Wednesday, Devon and Cornwall Police said.They said thieves had taken a midnight green Santa Cruz Vala e-bike, an avocado green Santa Cruz Heckler bike and a mint green Specialized Levo bike.Officers said they suspected a van had been used to transport the e-bikes and asked anyone with information or relevant CCTV or doorbell camera footage to contact them.
Sgt Tom Ottley added: "We would also like to hear from anyone who has been offered any of these high-value e-bikes for sale."
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I saw arrogant Mick Philpott carry out sick plot to emerge as the ‘hero' before torching home & burning kids alive
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Meanwhile, another resident on Victory Road reveals how she and her partner were called 'child murderers' in the street after cops held her and her partner for 72 hours - as shameless Philpott scrambled to pin the blame on THEM for his crimes. The furious locals paint a grotesque picture of the convicted mass killer, who we recently revealed was left "battered and bruised" in a brutal jail beating. In extraordinary detail, they tell how he acted with impunity, seeing himself saw himself as 'God's gift', and paraded up and down the street often dressed in little more than a pair of turquoise speedos. Dinner lady Pearl Turner was in her garden when she spotted her next-door neighbour, Philpott, setting up the ladders at the back of his home. Pearl, who lived next door to the family for several years, claimed that he'd planned to climb them once he'd set the house ablaze, and help pull his kids to safety. The dad - who had previously appeared on the Jeremy Kyle Show - had concocted the arson scheme to pin on former mistress Lisa Willis who he was due to face in court over access to his four kids with her. But in a tragic turn of events, he had forgotten to unlock their bedroom windows, leaving them trapped inside the burning building. Evil dad Mick Philpott who killed six children in a horror blaze left 'battered and bruised' in brutal jail beating The fire claimed the lives of Duwayne, 13, Jade, 10, John, nine, Jack, seven, Jesse, six, and Jayden, five. Only Duwayne, the eldest, managed to escape the house alive, before he too died from his injuries in hospital days later. Both Philpott and his wife Mairead, who supported his plan, were eventually arrested on May 29 2012, initially for murder, although charges were later changed to manslaughter. Haunting memories Thirteen years on, Pearl is still traumatised by the memory of seeing the five children's charred bodies laid out in a row in the street outside her home as firefighters tried in vain to save them. Now 78 and retired, she was still living next door to where the tragedy unfolded when The Sun revisited the scene of the killings. Breaking her silence on the horrific fire, she says: 'I'll never get the sight of them lying there out of my head." She shared heartbreaking details about the night of the fire but also offered insight into the extraordinary lengths Philpott had gone to in order to ensure he emerged as a hero. She added: 'I was in my garden the day before the fire and Philpott came home with two sets of ladders. 'He initially placed them against my wall at the back, then moved them off and positioned them very carefully underneath the two upstairs windows at the rear of his house. They were the children's bedrooms. 12 12 12 'As soon as I saw those two ladders leaning up against our wall, I knew the crafty sod was up to something, but never in a million years would I have worked out the evil plan he had in mind. 'I knew he hadn't brought the ladders home to do any DIY or a spot of house maintenance because he was useless and lazy. I'd never seen any ladders at his property before. 'As soon as I became aware their house was on fire, it became clear to me what his purpose with the ladders had been. He'd planned to use them to climb up to their windows and rescue them so he could play the hero. 'But he forgot the bedroom windows had locks on them and in the panic and chaos of the fire, with smoke everywhere, those poor children weren't able to open the windows and died. "They paid the price of their father's arrogance and stupidity. It was all such a needless, tragic waste. 'They were lovely, polite kids. They always waved at me when they saw me. If I was in the garden, they'd wave from their bedroom windows. 'On the day of the fire, I told the police about my suspicions over the ladders, but it took them weeks to arrest him. I've never really understood why. It was obvious to me what he'd done.' 'We were called child murderers' One of those arrested, a 41-year-old woman named Vicky, also told The Sun - in another first interview - how Philpott tried to frame her and her partner for the fire that left six children dead. Vicky, then aged 28, revealed how officers arrested her and her late partner Adam, then 38, who died last year, and took them to Ripley police station and held them for questioning for 72 hours. Through tears, Vicky said: 'We had been friends with Mick, Mairead and Lisa (Philpott's former live-in mistress) for some time and Mick used that friendship to try and save his own skin. 'When the police spoke to him on the day of the fire he told them me and Adam had started it. "As soon as they told me Mick had accused us of starting the fire, I knew it had to have been Mick himself who had done it. Why else would he have tried to put it on us? 'Even so, it took us three days to convince the cops we were innocent before they let us go, but when we got back people still believed we'd done it. 'We were getting called child murderers in the street and on social media. It was absolute hell for us. It went on for months and months. I am still traumatised by it. "Poor Adam is dead now but it was the same for him until the day he died. You just never get over it. 'The abuse only stopped when Philpott and the other two went to court and the details came out, but for me and Adam, the damage was already done. 'And those poor, poor children. Nothing could bring them back. 'Philpott was an obnoxious, self-centred b*****d who thought he was God's gift to everything. He killed his own children then tried to frame me and Adam - his friends - for it. That tells you what kind of man he is. 'I hope he is never released from jail. He is a monster and should die in there.' 12 12 Vicky said she remains close friends with Lisa, and is 'in touch' with her. 'Lisa has long since moved away from Derby and I would never tell anyone where she is now,' she said. Vicky also revealed that Mairead, who was released early from jail in 2023, has since changed her name and is living with a new partner. 'She is a monster too and should never have been let out early. Why should she be allowed to start a new life as if nothing happened?' 'Hope he never gets out' Speaking to those living in Victory Road now, it is notable how many locals' lives were interwoven with the Philpotts. Neighbour Martin's son was in a relationship with Philpott's daughter from his first marriage at the time of the tragedy. He said his son, then 18, had been one of the first to try and enter the burning building and rescue the children. Martin said: 'Before the fire crews arrived, my boy was there trying to get the kids out. "He saw the ladders at the back of the house and climbed up to try and get in through the window but the heat was so intense it was burning the hairs off his arms. His skin felt like it was on fire. 'He tried and tried to smash the windows but he just couldn't. It was awful. 'He knew the Philpotts because he'd been going out with one of Mick's daughters for about a year at the time. We all got to know Mick and his family quite well and we'd sometimes go round for dinner. 'I never really liked him because he was such a loudmouth, but I had to make the effort for the sake of my son and his girlfriend. 'To be honest, I thought Mick was a bit of a prat. He'd been on TV and thought of himself as a star. He really believed he was a film star. 'But I never thought for a moment he'd be capable of what he did. 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Daily Mail
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Instant karma! Moment raging motorist speeds past learner with crazy overtake - only to drive straight into the hands of armed police
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Daily Mail
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EXCLUSIVE My son is a thief… I'm powerless to stop him: Mother of man who snatched phone of Bridgerton's Genevieve Chenneour calls him a 'sociopath'
With his cheeky grin and a glint in his eye as he plays with his siblings, he looks like a precocious young boy with perhaps a small propensity for naughtiness. But a decade on, now 18, Zacariah Boulares is more than merely naughty - he is arguably the best known and most notorious phone mugger in the world. And that dubious claim to fame is because his violent street crime career now includes not one but two celebrity victims, in the form of Bridgerton star Genevieve Chenneour and previously broadcaster and singer Aled Jones. Having already spent time in a Young Offenders' Institute for the horror attack on Jones, Boulares looks certain to graduate to adult prison when he appears before a judge next Tuesday to be sentenced for the attack on the Bridgerton actor. CCTV footage from a coffee shop in Kensington this February showed Boulares attempt to snatch a phone then react violently when Ms Chenneour bravely challenged him. Until now, despite his notoriety, very little has been known about Boulares whose name only became public this week. All that was known was his rap sheet of previous offences, 12 previous convictions relating to 28 offences which include stealing a Rolex watch worth £20,000 from a 78-year-old man at Paddington station in May 2023. But now MailOnline has pieced together his life story…and it makes for grim reading. We were assisted in this enterprise by his parents who have long despaired at his behaviour - they say he has been in trouble 'since the day he was born' and his own mother describes him as 'a sociopath'. But the couple - who freely supplied these family photographs to make their son reflect on his life - say they still believe he can turn his troubled life around. His heartbroken mother Myriam told MailOnline: 'From the day he was born, I knew there was something wrong with Zac, and as he got older, I confirmed it – it got worse and worse. 'I always knew he would end up getting into trouble because of his personality from a very young age. 'I have been to court with him so many times. I knew it was not going to end up well. 'I am not excusing his behaviour for one moment. There are no excuses for what he did.' It was previously misreported that Boulares was Algerian and that he couldn't be deported back to Algeria because his offences were committed before he turned 18. But in fact the teen mugger is a British citizen by birth - he was delivered at the prestigious Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London, in February 2007. His father, Toufiq Boulares, a patisserie chef, fled his native Algeria in 1991 to escape the then raging civil war and claimed asylum in the UK and has worked in kitchens across London for three decades including a Mayfair restaurant. His mother, Myriam, a French citizen from Paris, came to London in 2001 initially to simply learn English, but then she met Mr Boulares, fell in love and stayed. The couple wed and went on to have four children - Zacariah was their third born. He has an older and younger brother and an older sister who we have anonymised as he is the only one to have ever been in trouble with the police. Myriam explained: 'Zac was in trouble at school from a very young age. 'He was an angry child and always fighting. He has sociopathic traits. I tried to get him as help as possible, but I felt helpless. 'He went to see a psychologist, but Zac did not engage. He first got involved with the police when he was 12. 'He was caught riding a scooter without a helmet and then he was involved in petty crime. He was having a lot of fights at school and at football. 'Then he got arrested for theft at a cash machine. And he was arrested for a burglary in Highgate. 'His father and I tried everything to stop this behaviour, but it was mission impossible. 'Our three other children have not followed this path. As a mother I recognised with sociopathic traits.' She continued: 'The street robbery started when he was about 13. It was mainly phones. 'He started in north London, because that was where we were living. But when he was a bit older he went to the centre of London. 'He was hanging around with older people, adults. I think they used him because they knew he would receive a lighter sentence if he was caught because of his age.' Boulares was expelled from Compton secondary School in Finchley for violent behaviour and was transferred to the Pavillion, a specialist study centre in Barnet but that failed to change him. He first came to national attention for the mugging of an elderly man in Chiswick, west London in 2023. MailOnline previously obtained footage of Boulares, then 16, appearing to clutch a machete after he ran away from the spot Aled Jones was mugged of a £17k Rolex Boulares was just 16 when he terrorised 'Walking in the Air' singer Jones with a 20-inch blade and threatened to behead him when he stole his Rolex Daytona. Boulares demanded 'give me your f***ing Rolex' - and threatened to cut Jones' hand off if he refused. He had only recently released - early - from a 24-month youth detention order for that crime when he attacked the Bridgerton actor Genevieve in February. He was still 17 then but has since turned 18 which saw him transferred from remand in youth custody to adult Wormwood Scrubs. He is likely to be given a longer custodial sentence next week. After targetting Jones, Boulares appeared on the BBC investigation programme 'Hunting the Rolex Rippers' and recounted how he pulled a 23-inch machete on the star. He said: 'I just clocked the guy. He was looking at some expensive wines or cheeses. He was in a quite well-off shop and I noticed that he was wearing a Rolex. 'I followed them for a couple of minutes and then he went onto a back road where there was nobody there. 'He was with his son but I didn't know it was his son. His son is an 18-year-old guy, six foot something. So what I did is, bro I pulled a machete on him. 'I told him take off the watch, he gave it to me.' Asked how he felt after he'd robbed his victim, the thief said: 'I didn't really care. I was happy, if anything 'Half an hour after I robbed him when I was going back home the realisation hit me that I had just done something crazy, something stupid, I regretted it instantly 'I don't feel as bad because he's a well off celebrity. He's probably got ten more in his safe,' he added. Looking back and without going into detail, Mrs Boulares says she did not get the state support she wanted to try to change his trajectory when he was younger. She said: 'I did not have the help to support my son and my family. And now it is too late.' She has found watching his criminal career reported in the media particularly upsetting, she says. 'It is very hard to see your own flesh and blood portrayed like a gangster.' But she still believes he can change, she said: 'Zac has admitted his mistakes. He has gained a qualification as a bricklayer while in prison and we are trying to help him find a job. 'Now we are preparing for when Zac is released. He is looking to work in an honest job. 'He has told me 'Mum, I'm done with this.' Myriam added: 'I want to make sure everyone understands that I am not making any excuses for Zac's behaviour. 'But I have been speaking to my son while he has been incarcerated. He will be sentenced on 17th June. 'After he is released from jail we are going to take his life in a better direction.' And his father Toufiq also insists their son wants to change. He told us: 'Zac regrets everything he has done. He had a lot of problems when he was younger. Now he wants to do good things.' 'When I see my son's face all over the media, I feel bad. Zac regrets everything he has done. He is very sad. 'Now he wants to do good stuff.' It remains to be seen whether Boulares is just spinning a story to comfort his parents and try to win sympathy from a judge. The proof come when he is next released from custody, which many not be for some time.
