Despite wearing an ankle tag which tracked his movements 24 hours a day, between October and January brazen crook Thomas Siggers stole at least eight cars using sophisticated keyless entry tech. One woman who watched her £40,000 Land Rover being taken from her driveway in Bexley described feeling “emotionally violated” by the theft. When the car was found six days later it was trashed and her 93-year-old mum’s wheelchair was gone.
Another car Siggers stole was later used in a shooting in Woolwich. Siggers was one of four men accused of partaking in the attempted execution of a man outside his own home, but a jury found him not guilty of attempted murder after he said he was not aware of the gun and thought it was a plan to steal rather than kill. Siggers was also involved in an incident which saw an off-duty police officer threatened with a machete.
When the law eventually caught up with him he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal motor vehicles, vehicle interference, affray and theft from a motor vehicle. The 30-year-old from Sidcup was jailed for four years and ten months at Woolwich Crown Court on Friday (September 6). Machete threats Siggers stole Land Rovers, Range Rovers and Lexus’ from Eltham, Bexleyheath, Welling, Chislehurst and Orpington.
Most of the vehicles were worth upwards of £20,000. Judge Christopher Grout described it as a planned and sophisticated operation which Siggers played a leading role in, taking the cars and equipping them with false plat.