I would imagine that the likelihood of seriously or somewhat permanently hurting someone other than yourself with 2 tons of nicked metal, rather than 7kg of nicked carbon, has a bearing on sentencing.
This is to do with theft, the risk to others would be under dangerous driving surely?
It does imply nicking a £200 Nissan Micra causes more harm than a £10,000 Pinnarello
I would imagine that the likelihood of seriously or somewhat permanently hurting someone other than yourself with 2 tons of nicked metal, rather than 7kg of nicked carbon, has a bearing on sentencing.