article_snippet: Sentencing them, Judge Patrick Thomas QC said: 'This was significant professional crime.
article_snippet: This involved calculated and technically astute pre-planning and professionally carried out thefts or attempted thefts of high value motor vehicles. '
article_snippet: They were offences of pure and unadulterated greed.
article_snippet: I accept there were other people
article_snippet: but you were the man on the ground, organising and carrying out this sophisticated and carefully planned theft.'