Two members of a determined and well-equipped burglary gang were today jailed for a smash-and-grab raid at a remote Co-op store.

John Fish, 37, of Carden Road, Tyersal, Bradford, was imprisoned for three years.

Anthony Farrer, 38, of Ramsden Avenue, Scholemoor, Bradford, was locked up for 27 months.

Bradford Crown Court heard today that the men were each released from eight-year prison terms in 2010 for their roles in a ram-raid gang that plundered cash machines.

Both defendants admitted stealing cigarettes valued at £9,000 from the Co-op in Slaithwaite, near Huddersfield, on April 3, 2012.

Fish also pleaded guilty to raiding the Co-op in Meltham, near Huddersfield, on March 22, 2012 and stealing £11,495 of cigarettes.

Prosecutor Ken Green said the men were arrested after police pursued their car from the Slaithwaite shop.

Fish was apprehended after getting out of the vehicle and Farrer was caught walking through a blizzard in Shelf.

A burglars’ kit of vice-grips, jemmys and screwdrivers was found in the car, along with the raided cigarettes.

The vehicle had cloned number plates.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, said the burglaries were professional, determined, sophisticated and pre-planned.

Smaller stores in remote areas were targeted and, in the Slaithwaite offence, up to four men were seen loading bags of cigarettes into the car.

A third defendant has pleaded guilty to linked offending and will be sentenced at a later date.