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Published November 24, 2025 6:00am
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Previous Page Next PageThis is the moment two thieves found themselves literally in hot water after being caught by officers hiding in a hot tub.
Ryan Wilkinson, 25 and Adrian Askin, 28 were both found taking a dip at a home in Camblesforth, North Yorkshire, while their accomplice Cyle Jenkins, 23 was detected concealed in a trailer.
The trio are responsible for a series of high value car burglaries, targeting Audi and Volkswagen vehicles across Yorkshire.
On one occasion, the group banged on the door on a property, shouting,’It’s the police’ and threatening to break it down if not allowed in.
The masked men then assaulted a woman in front of her terrified elderly mother, punching her in the face and demanding she hand over the keys to her Audi RS3.
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‘When I opened the door to see those three men stood there in balaclavas, it gives me nightmares, and I have had nightmares. I will never forget what happened that night,’ the victim said in an impact statement.
However they were unable to get her to disclose the code to the immobiliser, which meant they couldn’t get the car beyond the garage.
To stop her calling for help, the criminals smashed her mobile phone and took the landline, although she was able to alert police with the help of a neighbour.
The victim later recalled seeing a suspicious car passing by home the day before the attack.
The next evening, the group stole a three-week-old Volkswagen Golf R parked outside a home they had broken into in Gilberdyke, East Yorkshire.
In an impact statement, the victim said he and his wife continue to check their blinds every day, fearing they have been targeted again.
He said: ‘I can honestly say you don’t know just how much of an incident like this in your own home can affect you until it happens.’
Another newly purchased car of the same model was targeted at a home in Carlton, North Yorkshire.
The serial car burglars were caught by a police dog hiding in a garden hot tub (Picture: North Yorkshire Police)
The homeowner found himself confronted by a masked man who had broken in via a side door, brandishing his own air rifle while swinging his crowbar at the man’s dog and threatening to kill it if he failed to hand over the keys to his vehicle.
The unnamed victim later explained how the trauma had changed the way he behaves every day.
‘The incident really shook me up. I would always be looking over my shoulder, paranoid someone was about, I was never like this before but because of what happened, it’s changed how I feel and behave’, he said.
The criminals were then tracked driving the stolen vehicles, to which they had affixed false number plates, towards Austerfield in Doncaster.
Officers successfully deflated the tyres of one of the cars using a stinger device before it was found with collision damage.
A clip shows Wilkinson and Askin being discovered by a police dog soaking wet under the lid of a hot tub in a garden.
Jenkins was found in the same garden hiding in a trailer.
The three criminals were arrested and later pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated burglary and two counts of theft of a motor vehicle.
A grab of the criminal trio infiltrating a home via the back garden (Picture: North Yorkshire Police)
Wilkinson was connected with the burglary in Camblesforth after he was shown on CCTV walking at a local restaurant with a leg brace the day before the incident.
On November 21, all three were sentenced to a combined total of more than 30 years imprisonment.
Askin was sentenced to ten years behind bars, while the other two gang members received sentences of nine years and four months in jail.
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DC Alex Dorlin said: ‘These were terrifying and traumatic experiences for the victims of these burglaries, whose sense of safety in their own homes has been shattered, and the impact of which will be felt for a very long time.
‘The bravery of the first victim, who withheld her immobiliser code, ultimately set off a chain of events that led to the group’s arrest the following night.
‘I hope today’s sentences offer some closure that those responsible have been brought to justice.’
He added: ‘Thanks to fast action and skilled investigative work from all sides of the border we’ve taken a dangerous and violent group off the streets.’
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