Couple's £100k stolen Range Rover found en route to DR Congo
It took thieves just 63 seconds to steal the Wilsons' Range Rover Sport from their gated home in EssexAnthony and Danielle Wilson awoke at their Essex home to find their Range Rover had vanished. The vehicle was later found loaded on a container at a UK port bound for the Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa. The Wilsons' experience, police warn, is becoming increasingly common.
"You can see one of them creeping up the drive," said Mrs Wilson, whose parents were staying with them on the night of the theft. "He's literally leaning into my car, doing something, switched the interior light off, and then trundled it down the drive."The couple, who have a three-year-old child, believe they may have been followed by the thieves for some time before the car, which costs about £100,000 new, was taken.
About a month after the car was stolen in July, it was discovered wedged inside a container at the Port of Tilbury, in Essex.The car was discovered about a month after it was stolen - wedged inside a container at the Port of Tilbury, in Essex Others are sold in the domestic used car market for slightly under the usual market value, he said. "Unsuspecting buyers part with their hard-earned money thinking that they've bought a bargain."Not all stolen vehicles are intact when they are sold on.
"The total haul in one of our jobs is worth well over a million pounds of stolen cars in one hit," he said.
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