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Bungling truck thieves end up in river
BUNGLING truck thieves took a wrong turn during a police pursuit - and ended up careering into the River Thames.
Stunned eyewitnesses in Felix Lane, Shepperton, and Manor Road, Walton, watched in amazement in the early hours of Monday morning as the Nissan Cabstar ran out of road and crashed into the water, before drifting into the middle of the river and eventually sinking to the bottom.
They then saw two of the four suspects try to swim to their escape, before officers waiting on both river banks dragged them ashore.
Nick Green, who lives by The Anglers pub in Manor Road, said: "I heard the police helicopter and then sirens, looked out of the window and saw a truck in the river and two people swimming away.
"One of them was dragged back and he was cuffed, with his face on the ground. Then the police went to the other side of the bridge to catch the other one, who tried to leg it through peoples' gardens. He didn't get very far. The crooks made a right cock-up.
"I have seen four or five cars go in the river, usually because the handbrakes haven't been up, but nothing like this."
Another neighbour said: "I have seen a police chase down here before, but the suspects got away that time.
"One of the men was wrapped in tin foil and was soaking wet. The police didn't seem to want him in their car and he was outside for about an hour. The next thing I know an ambulance turned up and he was put in that. He looked as though he was in shock."
The neighbour, who didn't want to be named, took pictures of the truck being hauled from the river on Tuesday morning.
It had been stolen from a residential road in Charlton Village at about midnight when a police car, which was on its way to the victim of the theft, spotted it in convoy with a yellow Ford Focus at the junction of Staines Road and The Broadway, Laleham.
Both vehicles failed to stop, and a pursuit of the truck began through Charlton, Shepperton, over Walton Bridge and then finally Manor Road, where the road becomes river. The Ford Focus was eventually stopped in Egham, where two of the suspects were arrested.
Six police units were needed to arrest a 24-year-old woman from Egham, a 20-year-old man from Camberley, a 21-year-old man from Chertsey and a 17-year-old man from Byfleet on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle. All remain in custody while investigations continue.
Police denied the pursuit was high speed.
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