Jaguar employee stole £2million of car parts from factory and sold them on the black market to fund trips around the world

A logistics co-ordinator at Jaguar Land Rover forged signatures on hundreds of order forms to steal millions of pounds worth of car parts from his company's HQ and punt them on at knock-down prices.

Simon Wensley paid off his mortgage and treated his family to a jet-set lifestyle with the profits he made selling the spares to local garages and fitters.

He'd smuggled them from the firm's base in Coventry, home to 4,000 workers, after submitting bogus orders to their manufacturing plant signed-off with forged signatures.

In the end, the 55-year-old had stolen 5,000 components before being caught out asking for engine parts that hadn't been made for years.

The nicked parts had a total value of £2.2million. 

Judge Andrew Lockhart, in sentencing Wensley to five years imprisonment at Warwick Crown Court, said: You told people you could obtain high-quality parts at a fraction of the true cost.

'Your theft was unrelenting.

'Unscrupulous garages and fitters have needed someone like you, someone on the inside.'

He described the theft as 'staggering', adding that Wensley's methods were 'systematic, persistent and cynical.'