Youth caged for sharing footage of cable theft which left residents homeless
- 4 months ago
An "immature youth" has been caged for filming a large cable theft in a block of flats that left up to 200 residents temporarily homeless.
Kyle Butters, 20, filmed the masked gang, who were equipped with bolt-cutters and hard hats as they cut through cables to steal copper wiring at the city centre apartment block.
Footage, which he then shared on social media, shows masked youths on crosser bikes removing and posing with the stolen wire from the basement of the flats.
The gang stripped out copper wiring worth about £15,000 and caused a mass evacuation of the building, in Bradford, West Yorks., by damaging its power supply.
Kyle Butters, 20, filmed the masked gang, who were equipped with bolt-cutters and hard hats as they cut through cables to steal copper wiring at the city centre apartment block.
Footage, which he then shared on social media, shows masked youths on crosser bikes removing and posing with the stolen wire from the basement of the flats.
The gang stripped out copper wiring worth about £15,000 and caused a mass evacuation of the building, in Bradford, West Yorks., by damaging its power supply.