A Peterborough-based gang behind a five-month spree of luxury car thefts has been jailed, after detectives tied them to 22 stolen vehicles worth more than £500,000.
Osvaldas Milius, 28, Mindaugas Savickas, 34, and Kornelijus Girdeika, 26, admitted to conspiring to steal motor vehicles taken from driveways across Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire between April and September 2024. Sentencing at Huntingdon Law Courts on 13 August, the judge handed Milius 53 months, Savickas 33 months and Girdeika 32 months in prison. Milius also pleaded guilty to knowingly entering the UK in breach of a deportation order.
The targets and the tactic
The gang overwhelmingly hunted keyless Jaguar Land Rover models—16 Range Rovers, two Land Rover Discoverys, plus a Jaguar F-Pace, Jaguar XF and a BMW 118—lifting them in the early hours from locations including Peterborough, St Neots, Little Paxton, Alconbury Weald, Folksworth, Glinton, Ailsworth, Helpston and Skegness. Police said they used “sophisticated equipment” to get into the cars and drive away.
When officers recovered 15 of the vehicles in Peterborough and Lincolnshire, many had been fitted with cloned plates. Forensic work then began to unravel the operation. Milius’s DNA was found on a water bottle in a grey Range Rover stolen from Little Paxton on 4 May and found three days later in Stanground. Girdeika’s fingerprint was on a cloned plate attached to a white Range Rover stolen from Alconbury Weald on 14 May. Savickas was linked after his fingerprints were found on the driver’s door of a black Range Rover stolen in Paston on 23 August. CCTV also placed Milius and Savickas using the stolen blue BMW 118 at a Market Deeping petrol station on 18 August.
How the case was built
Alongside the forensics and CCTV, detectives seized and analysed the men’s mobile phones, mapping movements that matched those of the stolen cars. All three later pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge.
Sentences and addresses
Osvaldas Milius, of Overland Mews, Peterborough — 53 months (plus the deportation-order breach).
Mindaugas Savickas, of Lincoln Road, Millfield, Peterborough — 33 months.
Kornelijus Girdeika, of Arkwright Way, Paston, Peterborough — 32 months.
The timeline in brief
Police charge papers list thefts from 11 April to 5 September 2024, starting with a Range Rover Vogue in Dogsthorpe and ending with a Land Rover Discovery in Alconbury Weald, with hotspots across Peterborough and Huntingdonshire and two April incidents in Skegness.
Police message & prevention
PC Craig Trevor called it a “sophisticated operation” and thanked Lincolnshire Police and Jaguar Land Rover’s security team for their help. The force highlighted manufacturer firmware updates for older JLR models and urged simple deterrents—full steering-wheel disc locks, pedal boxes, and independent immobilisers—plus hidden, dormant GPS trackers that can be activated after a theft.
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Sources: Cambridgeshire Constabulary press releases and case summary; ITV Anglia court report; LincolnshireWorld court report.
