Two suspects charged after stolen car pursuit in Nottinghamshire

Police officers from the force’s Road Crime Team were investigating a car theft when they spotted a car that was known to them in Welbeck Road, Radcliffe-on-Trent on Monday April 10 at 7.50pm. The vehicle was travelling with another car that had been reorted as stolen earlier that day.

As the second car failed to stop for officers and a pursuit broke out before the car came to a stop following a crash in Ruddington. Officers then pursued a suspect on foot across a number of fields before he was detained. Other officers managed to follow 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 on Wednesday (12 April) charged with the theft of a motor vehicle.

Sergeant Neil Haynes, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “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.”

The proactive Road Crime Team’s core daily work is focussed 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.