'Best car we've had bruv': Carjackers filmed boasting of stealing a high-powered sports car from a mother and her young son as they hurtled along residential roads at ‘terrifying’ speeds

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This is the moment two carjackers were filmed boasting of stealing a high-powered sports car from a mother and her nine-year-old son as they hurtled along residential roads at high speed. 

In dashcam footage taken from the stolen Nissan GT-R, Gez Bennett, 19, can be heard saying 'f*****g rally car son' and 'best car we've had, bruv'.

The teenager and his accomplice Shane Mullen, 21, robbed the £40,000 vehicle from Tracy Moore as she visited a beauty salon at 7.50pm on September 18 last year.

Jailed: Gez Bennett, 19, (left) and his accomplice Shane Mullen, 21, (right) had scarves covering their faces as they dragged the victim from her Nissan GT-R and drove off at 'terrifying' speeds in Coventry, West Midlands

The carjackers, who had scarves covering their faces, dragged the victim from the Nissan before speeding off at 'terrifying' speeds in Coventry, West Midlands.

A court heard that Ms Moore chased after the car thinking her young son was still inside but luckily the boy had managed to get out during the terrifying attack.

The thieves were arrested after the damning footage linked them to the crime and the mother's designer handbag was found hanging on a tree near Bennett's home.

The pair, both of Coventry, pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to rob at a previous hearing at Warwick Crown Court. 

Bennett has now been jailed for four-and-a-half years while Mullen was sentenced to five years and four months in prison.

The pair were caught after selling the sports car for just £4,000 - a tenth of its actual value.

After the carjacking they parked the Nissan in a private road and waited for two hours before other men arrived to buy it. 

A court heard that Ms Moore chased after the car thinking her young son was still inside but luckily the boy had managed to get out. In the footage, Mullen can be heard telling Bennett the 'old bill are gonna be everywhere'

Shocking: In the 47-second video, Bennett can be heard saying: 'That ain’t my fault Muz, you know it ain’t'

Following the sale, the high-powered vehicle was driven away but police were tipped off at 3am on September 19 when someone reported three suspicious men trying to park a 'sporty car'.

Two of the men were released without charge but a third man, Zaheer Hussain, 40, from Coventry, West Midlands, was handed a suspended jail term for handling stolen property.

When police recovered the car, they found it was fitted with a video and audio system that had captured the route the car had taken and the conversation between Mullen and Bennett.

Jailing both men and banning them from driving for the length of their sentences, Judge Andrew Lockhart said: 'Expensive modern cars are fitted with complex electronic devices to protect them when they are stolen. 

'That presents a problem for car thieves, because no longer can you take a car with a screwdriver or a coat hanger.

'Car security systems have to be overcome; and the way you chose to do that was to take part in a plan to rob drivers of their vehicles when they are at their most vulnerable, when they're getting in and out of their cars.

'That is sometimes referred to as carjacking. What you described when you spoke to each-other was a 'drag-out' when people are dragged out of their cars.

'Her son had got in, but was quick-witted enough to get out, and it's that which saved him from being driven off by you.'

The court was shown dashcam footage of Bennett and Mullen driving away in the stolen car at speeds of up to 63mph on 30mph residential roads.

In the 47-second video, Bennett can be heard saying: 'That ain't my fault Muz, you know it ain't'.

Mullen then replies: 'Get to Brixham, old bill are going to be everywhere'.

The clip also captures the thieves weaving dangerously in and out of traffic and narrowly avoiding a collision with a taxi at a junction.

Caught on camera: The court was shown dashcam footage of Bennett and Mullen driving away in the stolen car at speeds of up to 63mph on 30mph residential roads. At one point, Mullen shouts: 'Gez, Gez, Gez!'

The clip also captures the thieves weaving dangerously in and out of traffic and narrowly avoiding a collision with a taxi at a junction. Mullen was jailed for four-and-a-half years and Bennett five years and four months

Prosecutor Hugh Williams said the young boy had managed to get out of the vehicle and ran off after watching his mother get dragged out and thrown in the road.

He added Bennett and Mullen were caught after officers pulled over another man who was driving the stolen car and viewed the dashcam footage.

David Lyons, defending Bennett, said: 'A lady was pulled out of her car and was injured, but no more violence was used than was necessary to commit the offence, and no weapon was used.'

Amy Jackson, defending Mullen who has a six-month-old daughter and another child on the way with his partner, said he got involved because of debts from his gambling habit.

The court heard Bennett had a previous conviction for five burglaries and aggravated vehicle taking, while Mullen had convictions for burglary, handling and causing damage.

Following the sentencing, Detective Constable Sharon Owen, from West Midlands Police, said: 'It was purely by luck rather than judgment that the vehicle didn't collided with any other cars or members of the public.

'The car may well have been insured, but no money can compensate the psychological impact this has had on the victims in this case.

'We could've easily been dealing with a much worse incident.

'Thankfully the offenders' voices were recovered by the system fitted to the Nissan so we were able to hear them refer to each other by name and discuss what they should say if they were asked how they acquired the car.'