This is the moment a man was attacked on his own driveway for his VW Golf.
Video shows the man rummaging around in his car boot when two people were seen in the background getting out of a second car.
One of these was Kyle Camp, who was on a ‘ruthless spree of offending’, stealing several cars in one night.
He and his group had approached several victims over a period of weeks, threatening them with violence if they didn’t hand over their car keys, often armed with knives or tools.
In the video, Camp and an accomplice ran towards a car owner as he shut the boot and they lunged for his keys.
They forced him backwards and pushed him down into the flowerbed.
One held him down as the other ran to the car with his keys as the man lay struggling.
As the thief began to reverse the stolen car, the other one ran off to the vehicle they arrived with.
When the car owner managed to get up, another person ran to his aid.
Video shows the man rummaging around in his car boot when two people were seen in the background getting out of a second car.
In the video, Kyle Camp and an accomplice ran towards a car owner as he shut the boot and they lunged for his keys
They forced him backwards and pushed him down into the flowerbed
Police said Camp’ bragged’ about his stolen cars. On Friday he was jailed for 14 years and four months. He will serve a minimum of two thirds of his sentence in prison.
In July 2023, Greater Manchester Police were investigating seven teenagers for a string of burglary and thefts across Greater Manchester and Cheshire.
When one of those involved was arrested in October 2022, a download of his phone showed him communicating with Camp, with Camp bragging about the cars he’d stolen.
Police said that in May 2021, Camp entered a home in Droylsden after drilling the lock on the back door.
He stole a grey Volkswagen Golf and keys to a white Volkswagen Transporter.
A video from Camp’s phone, which was recovered on his arrest, showed the rear of the stolen Golf, with his phone connecting to the cell mast in the area of the offence at the time if was committed.
Hours later, at around 3am, Camp and his acquaintances were at their next targets address in Chadderton.
The victim was awake, praying, when he was alerted to a sound in his house.
In the kitchen he saw a man in a balaclava, looking through his window, accompanied by two men with knives.
The victim tried to stop them from entering, but they managed to steal the keys and escape with his car.
In June 2022, a man left his friend’s house and made his way home in Oldham. During this journey he felt that he was being followed by a grey BMW.
As the victim parked on his drive and exited his car he was approached by two men, Camp and Ryan Pearce, who was jailed in September 2023, after pleading guilty to the offence.
He was violently assaulted, threatened with a knife, and pinned to the ground. The offenders stole the keys and ran off to a grey BMW and left the scene.
The next day, officers recovered the grey BMW with false plates on.
In June of that year, in Rochdale, Camp approached a victim who was in his blue Seat Leon Cupra.
Kyle Camp was on a ‘ruthless spree of offending’, stealing several cars in one night
Camp posted pictures of stolen bikes and cars on his social media
He threatened him, saying if he didn’t hand over his keys, he’d be hurt. Phone data showed Camp sent a picture of the stolen Seat from his social media account, just 18 minutes after the incident took place.
That same month, police received a report that a victim had been approached by two men with knives.
Shortly before 4am, police arrived and spoke with the family who explained that he had been woken up by a man in a black mask, holding a knife, demanding he hands over the BMW keys.
The man was dragged from his bed and forced to wake his brother up and hand the car keys over.
The next month, a female victim arrived home when she was approached by a group of men who demanded the keys to her car in Denton.
As they left the scene they collided with another vehicle. Text messages revealed the males laughing about this incident saying ‘I got blocked in lol’ and ‘had to ram em.’
Over the space of seven weeks, Camp was involved in 15 different burglaries.
Detective Constable Chris Chinnery, from our Serious Organised Crime Group, said: ‘Kyle Camp’s crimes not only had significant financial implications for our victims, but most distressing, they had huge emotional impacts on victims who were either violently assaulted or threatened with weapons by Camp.
‘One man was left feeling so unsafe that he felt he had no choice but to move to a different part of the country.
‘This case included hours of meticulous searching through mobile phone evidence, tracing messages involving numerous people, across multiple phones and social media channels as deals were done and Camp bragged about his stolen cars, showing complete disregard the victims.’
Camp pleaded guilty to three counts of burglary, six counts of theft, six counts of robbery, and two counts of handling stolen goods.
