article_snippet: Leicester has never been recovered.
article_snippet: And yesterday Nathan Bates and Griffiths were jailed at Birmingham Crown Court and received lengthy driving bans.
article_snippet: Ali, from Hall Green, Birmingham, was jailed for three and a half years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to steal, theft of a motor vehicle and failing to surrender to custody.
article_snippet: Ali was banned from driving for four years.
article_snippet: Nathan Bates, from Shard End, Birmingham, was jailed for 15 months after admitting conspiracy to steal and was banned from the road for 18 months.
article_snippet: Griffiths pleaded guilty to all four thefts, but Nathan Bates admitted the Redditch, Leicester and Surrey offences.
article_snippet: Ali thought that Ali was above the law but a combination of information from the public and thorough checks by our intelligence analysts led to Ali downfall. '
highlights_snippet: Liaquat Ali was jailed for three and half years while Nathan Bates was jailed for 15 months .