Watch: West Midlands thieves steal a Ford Fiesta in less than two minutes during crime spree

Two thieves are caught on camera stealing a car in less than two minutes, during a spree of 59 Ford Fiesta thefts across the region.

Kaine Guest-Scott, 22, and Theon Lynch, 21, targeted train stations and park and rides across the Midlands in broad daylight. They used transmitter devices to open the cars, which were registered between 2012 and 2017, without triggering the alarms.

They then broke steering locks with angle grinders and reprogammed blank keys before driving away. The pair became so expert in stealing the cars, CCTV captured them pinching one in just 90 seconds.

The footage shows the pair calmly walking towards a red Ford Fiesta in the Rowley Regis car park before breaking into the vehicle and stealing it. Inside the car was the victim’s credit card that the pair are caught on CCTV using at a shop later that day.

Between June and November last year they stole 59 Ford Fiestas worth £366,000 which police say were then stripped for parts. West Midlands Police launched a major investigation and Guest-Scott and Lynch were arrested last November.

CCTV captured the pair targeting Fiestas in car parks where commuters often left their vehicles while they travelled to work. On 14 September, the pair arriving at The Hawthorns station car park in a red Ford Fiesta belonging to Lynch.

They left the car a few roads away before heading to the station car park and stealing another Fiesta. On 20 October at around 2.15pm, they were filmed at Rowley Regis car park stealing another Ford Fiesta.

Inside the car was the victim’s credit card that the pair are caught on CCTV using at a shop later that day. On 14 November, Guest-Scott was arrested at his home despite jumping out of a window to escape. A week later Lynch was also arrested.

Following a search of both addresses, police recovered clothing that matched what the pair were wearing in the CCTV. Phones were also seized and analysis placed Lynch at the car parks and the shop where a stolen bank card was used.

Transmitter devices, blank Ford keys, and specialist auto locksmith tools, including a turbo decoder to defeat car door locks and reprogramming devices were also recovered. The pair both admitted conspiracy to commit theft of motor vehicle covering 59 thefts, theft of a bank card and fraud at Birmingham Crown Court.

Guest-Scott, of Coseley, was jailed for four years while Lynch, of West Bromwich, was sentenced to three years and one month in prison.