Two burglars have been convicted after they stole high value cars and a lorry following break-ins in Swanley. 

Harry Cochrane and James Draper initially forced their way into a commercial premises situated off the A20, on June 27 this year where they stole a number of power tools and an Iveco commercial lorry. 

The pair then entered a neighbouring residential property, where they snatched mobile phones and found keys to also steal two BMW vehicles.

Staff arrived at the business premises the following morning to find it had been ransacked.

They alerted the victim living in the property next door, who discovered that as well as the theft of his cars, bicycles and power tools had also been stolen from his sheds and garage. 

Detectives investigating the break-ins located the stolen lorry a short distance away.

On the following day, the two BMWs were also recovered from a workshop address in Hertfordshire. Their registration plates had been removed. 

Cochrane and Draper were identified by police from CCTV and were arrested. Cochrane was also found to be in possession of a mobile phone stolen from the residential property. 

At Maidstone Crown Court, on 6 December, Cochran, aged 20 and formerly of Leydenhatch Lane, Swanley pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary and to the theft of a motor vehicle.

He also admitted a separate burglary which took place in London Road, Swanley on 21 December, 2015. 

Draper, aged 36 and formerly of Magpie Hall Close, Bromley pleaded guilty to two burglary offences. 

Both men have been remanded in custody until sentencing.

This is scheduled to take place at the same court next year, during the week commencing January 23.