I am sharing this, because incident happened in South East London.
As you will have gathered from my username, I live in Billericay in Essex.
In October the lady next door changed he car and bought a Dark Blue, 19 registration Mini.
She said that the garage that she bought the car from arranged all the DVLA paperwork. She had paid the road tax, but she now realises that she has never received any new V5 documents from the DVLA.
On Saturday morning at 7.15am Essex Police knocked on her door.
The police said that either Friday night or early Saturday morning her car, which had her registration on, but was now Black instead of Dark Blue had been involved in an incident in South East London.
The driver was apprehended and he had said that the owner of the car (my neighbour) had given him permission to drive her car. The Met police then asked their counterparts in Essex to check out whether this statement was true.
On arrival the police saw that the car in question was parked on her driveway. And quickly concluded that one of the cars was a clone of the other car.
Police informed her that the driver of the car apprehended lived in Charlton, South East London. They asked whether she knew anybody in, or has she ever had cause to visit Charlton. They also asked whether she had ever been to Charlton football club.
She said no, she hadn’t been to South East London for years, but the couple next door were supporters of Charlton football club. The police said that was just a coincidence.
I haven’t heard how the driver living in Charlton obtained my neighbour’s V5 registration document. I have heard stories of cars being cloned, but this is the first time it has happened to someone I know.
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Also strangely, rather than telling me at the time, officers from SCO19 staked the car out. Then chased down the driver and arrested him. Sadly the car was written off in the process.
My neighbor purchased her car in Chelmsford.
Perhaps SE7 is the dumping ground for stolen vehicles from Essex.
Once upon a time...........?
Mmmmm better keep to the short version
Hardly recognised it when they found it.