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Two men have been sentenced over their roles in a West Yorkshire organised crime gang which caused around 45,000 home to be left without power as they stripped electric power lines of copper wiring.

Shaun Townend and Antony Gray were part of the gang which put residents' lives at risk as they plundered 92,000 metres - around 57 miles - of hard drawn copper wire belonging to Northern Powergrid

The Castleford-based gang were responsible for over 250 separate incidents of theft in a conspiracy lasting 17 months.

'An epidemic of theft': Leeds man jailed over his role in conspiracy in which copper cable theft gang caused 45,000 homes to be left without power