Jail for gang member who transformed cars into battering rams to smash into shops

Aurimas Petraska transformed "cheap" cars into missiles, capable of smashing through secure premises.

By David Raleigh

A Lithuanian burglary gang lieutenant, who used cars loaded with concrete blocks as battering rams to smash into retail stores, stealing expensive women's clothes and perfumes, has been jailed at Limerick Circuit Court for five and a half years.