Posing thief who robbed Romelu Lukaku’s keys to his £250k Rolls Royce from airport car park
Kelsey Winder, 18, admitted handling stolen goods after he broke into football star Romelu Lukaku's car
THIS is the posing thief who stole the keys to a £250,000 Rolls Royce from inside a Mercedes at an airport car park.
Kelsey Winder, 18, admitted handling stolen goods after he broke into football star Romelu Lukaku's car.
The £75million Manchester United striker, 24, left his £100,000 Merc at Manchester airport before flying out to play for Belgium last month.
The aspiring PE teacher confessed to theft, going equipped for theft with a torch, hat and gloves and having a folding lock knife.
At Manchester Magistrates Court prosecutor Steve Woodman said police who searched Winder also found two United season tickets and a key fob belonging to a Rolls Royce owned by Lukaku.
Winder gave no comment to police. It is not known who broke into the footballer’s car.
Winder's lawyer Helen Sechiari said: "The route of the problem is that he has fallen out with his mother because of his use of cannabis. She kicked him out and in a sense he has acted out in this way.
"He is due to go back to college where he is doing a sports course, he has 13 GCSE's and aspires to become a PE teacher. Last night when he was received into custody he told me his mum wants him home and so does he.
"His parents have recently split up and he has been caught up in the middle of it being the second eldest of eight children."
JPs told him: "You need to know how close you were to going to prison and the reason for that is because of your lack of maturity and because of your lack of previous convictions we are going to reduce the sentence to a community order.
"This is your last chance."
In a Facebook post after the case Winder said: ''last few months I've been in a pretty bad place - not had the best of life but time to turn it all round. Nice to see myself back on good terms with my mum and dad. I love yous both obv - but been quite hard to express that coz not really had anyone there. Times r changing I'm changing. Lets hope for the best.''
The student, of Wythenshawe, got a 12-month community order plus 150 hours of unpaid work and he will have a curfew between 8pm and 6am.
