The car thieves drew up 'escape maps' to plan their route home after stealing cars.

They used fishing rods and magnetic poles to fish car keys through letter boxes.

Their previous crimes were also laid bare at their sentencing in Kingston Crown Court on Tuesday.

A 17-year-old car thief was also caught in a sting operation as a ‘runner’ for a Kingston drug dealer while on bail, it has emerged.

Fast and foolish: Surrey car theft gang jailed

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Conrad Hench, 17, of Portland Place, Kingston, was caught after an operation earlier this year involving 21-year-old drug dealer Christian Bastienne.

Police discovered Bastienne, who lived in Portland Place, Kingston, was running a drugs supply phone line under the name ‘Sonny’.

Officers placed an order for drugs and were told to wait outside the Duke’s Head pub in Epsom.

When they arrived Hench approached and asked ‘are you here for Sonny’ before spitting six wraps of heroin and crack cocaine out of his mouth, all captured on CCTV.

Before his exposure as a street dealer, police went to his house on October 8 last year and found the key for a Toyota Rav stolen from Manor Farm Close in Worcester Park a few weeks before worth £5,000.

They also found electric keys for a £15,000 BMW 320 which has never been recovered, an electric gate fob for the house in Halcyon Close, Leatherhead where the BMW was stolen, and keys for a Mercedes from a home in Northcliff Close in Worcester Park.

He was given a supervision order for possession with intent to supply and three counts of handling stolen goods.

One of the car thieves repeatedly smashed a bottle over a man on New Year’s Eve 2009.

Daniel Axeworthy, 22, drunkenly retaliated on a train from New Malden. Oliver Pendry, 20, who was on crutches, was alleged to have thrown a punch and stamped on the man’s head but a guilty plea for affray was accepted.

Axeworthy was also sentenced for stealing a BMW X5 worth £22,000 from Oxted on November 14 which was later recovered. He was given the longest sentence of three years and three months.

When Axeworthy was arrested at his home at Acacia Grove, New Malden, on December 21 last year he said: “That'll be me inside for Christmas won't it?

“Sometimes people have to do things to get by."

Pendry, 20, of no fixed address, received two years and three months in prison, which included an offence of driving a stolen Mercedes S350 on November 15 worth £70k.

He had told arresting officers: “I haven’t done anything for ages. I just moved some cars around when they need it.”

Harry Mackay, 21, and Annas Ibrahim, 17, reached speeds of up to 120mph as they were chased up the A3 towards Esher on November 5 last year in a stolen Porsche 911.

A police helicopter traced them from Woking to the Prince of Wales pub in West End, Esher, where they were found hiding behind bushes.

Mackay, of Queen’s Avenue, Thames Ditton, who has extreme ADHD and learning difficulties, was jailed for 18 months.

Ibrahim, of Victoria Road, Kingston, was jailed for two years and nine months under a section 91 order. If he had been an adult with his string of previous convictions he could have faced more than seven years in prison.

Phone data put trio Rico Persechino, 22, Craig Mills, 20, and Samuel Walton, 25, in the frame for stealing a BMW worth £9,975, later recovered, from Charlwood Drive in Oxshott on November 7 last year.

Interrogation of their phones placed all three nearby at about 2am when the car was stolen. It also placed them in Sunningdale four days later where they stole a Mercedes worth £70,000 which was never recovered.

They also stole dog food and washing powder from a pool house in Tudor Drive, Worcester Park, on November 19 with another man Daniel Axeworthy. Persechino claimed he was asleep in the car. Mills has been caught with a pole with a hook.

Persechino, of Cotsford Avenue, New Malden, was jailed for two years and eight months. Mills, of Norbiton Common Road, Kingston, was jailed for three years and Walton, of Windrush, New Malden jailed for three years.

A new black Jaguar XF worth £35,000 stolen from from Simmonds Close in Chessington on November 9 by Jordan Brogden, 20, of Green Lane, Worcester Park, has never been recovered. He was jailed for two years.

On an earlier occasion Glody Salumu, 18, of Langley Road, Surbiton, admitted one burglary, one attempted burglary and one charge of handling stolen goods. He will be sentenced on July 18.

No evidence was offered against a 17-year-old from Kingston, who cannot be named for legal reasons, prompting the judge to return a not guilty verdict.