A gang, including men from Deptford and Lewisham, who robbed security guards as they made deliveries across south London have been jailed for more than 26 years between them.
A security guard carrying a cash box, in Whitechapel, was approached by three members of the gang on mopeds on 28 August last year.
Joel Banks, 26, of no fixed address got off the moped and assaulted the security guard, snatching the security box he was carrying.
Bystanders stopped to help the security guard, detaining Banks, before he was arrested by passing police officers.
Ricky McDonald of Rushey Mead, Lewisham
Ricky McDonald, 31, of Rushey Mead, Lewisham and Jamie Allen, 25, of Stephens Grove, Lewisham fled.
On December 5, last year, Allen and Patrick McNally, 25, from Canary Wharf, attempted to rob a security guard as he made a delivery in Whitechapel.
Members of the public detained McNally as he snatched the security cash box from the security guard.
Allen, again, fled.
Jamie Allen, of Stephen Grove, Lewisham
The five men, who used stolen high-powered scooters to commit offences in Forest Hill, Deptford and Catford, were jailed after pleading guilty to a total of six robberies and three attempted robberies.
McDonald, and Dominic Shields, 26, of Bowditch, Deptford - who admitted money laundering - snatched two necklaces from the neck of a 55-year-old woman in Sunderland Road, Forest Hill on November 7 last year.
McDonald also admitted taking part in several cash-in-transit robberies in Charlton, Catford and Bermondsey between August 5 and December 18 last year and an attempted a cash-in-transit robbery in Evelyn Road, Deptford on June 21 last year.
Shields admitted cash-in-transit robberies in Croydon, Charlton, Whitechapel and Catford between August 1 and August 29 last year.
The pair were each jailed for six years and two months.
Dominic Shields, 26, of Bowditch, Deptford
Allen, who was released from prison in November 2013 after being jailed for an attempted cash-in-transit robbery committed in Greenwich High Road in July 2013, admitted his involvement in cash-in-transit robberies in Whitechapel and Catford in August last year.
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He also pleaded guilty to two attempted cash-in-transit robberies in Catford and Whitechapel on November 29 and December 5 last year.
All three were sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Thursday, November 19.
Banks and McNally were jailed, last year, for seven years and four months between over the same incidents.
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