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blog：Jail warning for gang who tied up woman and left her in Cumbrian container

Ann Haynes, 53, was making a delivery to electrical wholesalers Rexel Senate at Moresby Parks Industrial Estate in Whitehaven when three men – Paul McNish, Callum
Tyson and Mohammed Niaz – made off with her keys, her van and its cargo.

They left her bound inside a container for eight hours in July last year.

Ms Haynes, from Lancashire, was found shocked but unhurt the following morning.

At Carlisle Crown Court, McNish, 48, of Lonsdale Road, Blackpool, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit a robbery between July 1 and July 17 and false imprisonment on
July 16, 2008 – together with Tyson.

Tyson, 19, of Oxford Street, Cleethorpes, and Niaz, 23, of Charles Street, Blackpool, admitted same charges in earlier court appearances.

Another man, Paul Matthews, 43, of Ribble Road, Blackpool, also admitted conspiring to rob between July 1 and 17.

McNish, Matthews and Niaz were all remanded in custody for pre-sentence reports to be prepared. They will be sentenced on Friday, September 18.

Tyson is on bail but is due to appear at Carlisle Crown Court on Friday.

Judge Paul Batty QC told the men: “These are very grave offences. A lengthy custodial sentence is a possible outcome.”