Burglars try to steal cash machine in botched ram-raid driving stolen digger

This is the moment two burglars try to steal a cash machine in a botched ram-raid driving a stolen digger.

John Charles and Reuben Reynolds used the hydraulic lifting machine to knock through a wall at Spar in Wesley Road, Retford , at approximately 3.20am on 14 March last year.

Nottingham Crown Court heard the pair were left “disappointed” when they found the cash machine was empty.

The ram raid – which caused £40,000 worth of damage – activated an alarm and the men fled in a white van with false plates.

Officers located them a short time later at a house in Welbeck Road, Retford.

Charles, of Welbeck Road, Retford and Reynolds, of College Close, Newark have now been jailed for four years.