Two suspects have appeared in court following a police chase which ended with a car crash and an arrest in Ruddington.
The pursuit began when officers from Nottinghamshire Police‘s Road Crime Team spotted a car which was known to them in Welbeck Road, Radcliffe-on-Trent, at around 7.50pm on Monday (10th April). The vehicle was travelling with another car which earlier had been reported stolen.
Police say the second car failed to stop for officers and a chase ensued as far as Ruddington, where the crash occurred. Officers then pursued a suspect on foot across a number of fields in our village before he was detained.
Other officers followed the first vehicle and arrested a suspect nearby. Louis Denham, aged 26, of no fixed abode, and 38-year-old Timothy Wilson, of Rodwell Close, Beechdale, Nottingham, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court yesterday (12th April) charged with the theft of a motor vehicle.
Sergeant Neil Haynes, of Nottinghamshire Police, comments: “We are working hard as a force to prevent vehicle crime occurring in the first place as well as arrest, charge and bring to justice those responsible. This was a great piece of work by the Road Crime Team, working closely with Armed Response, a Dog Section officer, response officers and the control room.”
Police say their proactive Road Crime Team’s core daily work is focused on preventing crime and tracking down suspects who use vehicles to commit a range of offences – such as vehicle and fuel thefts, vehicles on cloned plates and cash machine thefts – as well as supporting other force teams with investigations.
