A PAIR of Pontypool burglars have been jailed after operating within a gang who plundered almost an entire enterprise park at Narberth.

Llewellyn Luce, 37, and Lisa Jones, 25, both from Pontypool, admitted five burglaries and three attempted break-ins, along with two other defendants last week.

The court heard how Luce along with Anthony Jones, aged 28, from Accrington, spent four hours rampaging through businesses on the Rushacre Park in Redstone Road before driving away with more than £40,000 in cash, tools and equipment.

Swansea crown court heard how they got away in a stolen £12,000 Volvo transporter van, and the vast majority of the stolen items were never recovered.

Judge Paul Thomas said all four had gone into a “large scale, organised, commercial burglary expedition with their eyes wide open.”

Dean Pulling, prosecuting, said the pair broke into Apple Blossom cleaners, Rushacre Garage, Premier Stoves, Tradeframe Manufacturers and Silverstone Green Energy, and tried to get into two other businesses and a storage shed, in the early hours of December 22 last year.

They stole £1,650 in cash from Apple Blossom and caused more than £5,000 worth of damage. They also broke into Christmas presents and took a distinctive bottle of wine that detectives would later find on top of a wardrobe at Luce’s home.

From Rushacre garage they stole the van and more than £20,000 of tools and equipment.

At Silverstone Green Energy the pair “destroyed” an antique safe and got away with £1,200 in cash and £3,100 worth of tools while causing £1,650 worth of damage.

Jones and Luce also stole cash, cameras, stamps and other valuables from Premier Stoves and Tradeframe Manufacturers.

Mr Pulling said detectives were able to track the transporter van on CCTV cameras along the M4 motorway.

They noticed it seemed to be in convoy with a Ford Fiesta belonging to Lisa Jones. And CCTV coverage of her at a service station put her in company with other members of the gang.

Police then examined mobile telephone traffic between them.

Anthony Jones, of Lister Street, Accrington, Luce, of The Woodlands, Penygarn, Lisa Jones, of Snatchwood Court, Pontnewynydd, and her then boyfriend, James Lawson, 25, of Whitegate Close, Padiham, Burnley, each admitted five burglaries and three attempted break-ins.

Jones was jailed for four years and Luce for 21 months.

Lisa Jones and Lawson were jailed for two years, suspended for two years, and ordered to carry out 240 hours of unpaid work for the community. The pair said they acted as look outs.