A smiling baby-face robbery gang celebrates in a stolen pensioner’s car

A baby-faced gang posed for smiling selfies in the back of a car stolen from a pensioner.

Lennon Lowry, then 17, Jack O’Connor, 18, and Callum Carr, 22, took the Nissan X-Trail in a robbery of a woman who cares for her older mother.

Within hours, the three yobs had filled it with stolen gasoline and equipped with stolen registration plates, ready for a terrifying robbery, the Liverpool Echo reports.

Lowry, Carr, and O’Connor smoked and waved as they sat in the car and on the roof.

A video shows Lowry, wearing latex gloves, behind the wheel, while Carr asks, “Who are we going to steal today, guys?”

The gang was joined by Carr’s brother, Lewis Carr, 18, when an 16-year-old boy was robbed of an iPhone that was given to him for his birthday.

Lowry then shot through the red lights to escape the police, but officers used a stop stick to puncture two of the Nissan’s tires and hit him off-road.

Brothers Carr and O’Connor were locked up in March, but Lowry has not been sentenced until now.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that Lowry, 18, of Wallasey, has 26 convictions for 62 offenses, dating back to when he was just 12 years old.

The Nissan was hijacked when its gang crawled into the Wallasey home while the woman and her 89-year-old mother slept on August 21 last year.

Shortly after the 5 am raid, Lowry drove the car through the Wallasey tunnel to a Shell garage on Scotland Road, where O’Connor stole £ 31 of gasoline.

They were later joined by Lewis Carr, then headed to Upton, where the boy was stolen at approximately 10:30 p.m.

After repeatedly asking to use the boy’s phone and promising not to steal it, Lowry took it, laughed and said, “See you later.”

He left, but then stopped and demanded the password, as a masked passenger came out to intimidate the victim, while Lowry attempted to clean the device.

Gerald Baxter, prosecuting, said the passenger said “put it on or I’ll stab you” and pointed his hand in his jacket pocket, like he had a knife.

The scared boy struggled to enter his password and heard another yob yell “put him in the car,” before two other masked passengers came out and surrounded him, until he managed to do so.

The “scared and angry” victim described how he felt helpless and was now more cautious with people.

Police saw the Nissan and tracked it through the Birkenhead tunnel to Islington, where they chased the car at high speed.

Lowry drove through two red lights, collided with a police car, and then crashed into another police vehicle when officers locked him up.

He climbed into the back seat and was arrested with O’Connor, but the Carr brothers fled and hid in the brush until police dogs arrived.

When interviewed, Lowry claimed he was at his mother’s home during the robbery and was picked up in the car shortly before the chase.

However, the incriminating photos and videos were discovered on his phones and those of Callum Carr, which exposed his lies.

The video also shows two unknown men in the car, which have been blurred at the request of the police while investigations are continuing.

The retiree now wants to leave her home for 50 years because she is very scared and the family invested £ 500 in a CCTV system.

He also took his daughter’s purse, which contained a gold watch her own daughter gave her for her 60th birthday and three coats in the car.

He lost his blue badge, driver’s license, glasses, and bank cards, one that was used at McDonald’s.

Lowry admitted robbery, robbery, flight without pay, robbery, and dangerous driving.

His criminal history includes 30 theft, multiple assault, armed robbery, robbery, and possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply.

He also has multiple convictions for taking vehicles without consent and was subject to a juvenile rehabilitation order at the time.

Andrew McInnes, in defense, said his client had served nine months in pretrial detention, the equivalent of an 18-month sentence, and urged the judge not to spare him in prison.

He accepted that he had a “horrible record for someone his age,” but said: “He is a young man with some major problems: educational needs, ADHD, he took care of him as a teenager, he was a” caring child, “he lacked structure, inattention and certainly within the two reports that your lordship has seen, [showed] immaturity, but it is also likely to be easily influenced by those who are more sophisticated. “

McInnes said his client, whose girlfriend was willing to give him a place to stay, claimed he did not know that threats would be used in the robbery.

The judge, Registrar Matthew Corbett-Jones, said Lowry had laughed at the robbery victim.

He said: “I have seen selfie-style photos taken on his phone and Callum Carr’s showing Callum Carr and Jack O’Connor relaxing, smoking and sitting on the roof of the vehicle, gesturing with their fingers towards the camera, smiling and congratulating each other in general.

“Callum Carr recorded a video while being driven in the vehicle, in which he was heard saying ‘who are we going to steal today, guys?’

“You were the driver of the vehicle at the time and that’s exactly what happened later that day.”

The judge said Lowry twice collided with police cars, causing “extensive damage” to a force car and the Nissan.

He said the theft had a “profound effect” on the woman and her mother, who were grieving after the death of their father and husband, respectively.

Recorder Corbett-Jones said: “You should be deeply ashamed of the unnecessary pain you caused those two women.”

He said the robbery victim was clearly a “pretty brave” boy, but he was also scared and now “distrustful” of others.

The judge accepted that Lowry had the potential to be influenced by “more sophisticated criminals.”

But he said: “I take into account the photos and the video recordings, which clearly demonstrate their full cooperation and enjoyment in participating in what they were doing this time.”

He sentenced him to two and a half years at an institution for juvenile delinquents and banned him from driving for 33 months.