Harrogate VW Cruise 5/07/2009
What could be better....cruising to the pub on a sunny english sunday in my 1966 split screen bus with the safari's open
Ex-footballer Ronnie Wallwork found 'breaking up stolen cars'
The main targets of the North West Regional Crime Squad were Craig Bulger and Mark Cain - who shot a security guard several times at a Preston supermarket.
Bulger, 51, was tracked to a scrap yard in Manchester. It was here that Wallwork came to the attention of the authorities in 2010 as the site became the focus of heavy surveillance.
Wallwork's friend Siobhan Johnstone, 34, of Newton Heath in Manchester, had sold a stolen Volkswagen Touran engine and car parts from a stolen BMW 318i on Ebay on behalf of Wallwork - described in court as her "lifelong friend".
She had also allowed a stolen Mazda Furano, with no rear registration plate, to be parked on her driveway at the ex-footballer's request.
When arrested, she told detectives she had no knowledge of where the Mazda or the car parts had come from.
The court heard the VW Touran had been stolen from an address in Worsley, the BMW from Wigan and the Mazda from Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
