[UAH] WARNING: Thieves want to steal your car and ship to Uganda
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WARNING: Thieves want to steal your car and ship to Uganda
Take care of your new dream car – car-jackers and car key house burglars are targeting Audis, BMWs and Range Rovers to order… and shipping them to Africa for despots, warlords and their rebel armies. Live's award-winning writer followed their journey from rural Leicestershire to Kampala
By JONATHAN GREEN in SOUTH AFRICA, Mail Online, 2011-10-09
- Car thieves today are international syndicates who not only pay local toughs to burgle and hijack but also have the connections and expertise to dispatch their goods abroad for sale in countries like Zimbabwe
At 4.30pm on a clear spring afternoon, Shellie Rhodes, a lawyer and a young mother of two, was returning home in her Audi Q7. She lived in the upmarket village of Church Langton in Leicestershire, a virtually crime-free area.
She had seen the silver Vauxhall Astra prowling her cul-de-sac, she realised later, but at the time was more focused on rushing home to feed her sons, Jacob, five, and Joseph, four.
As she parked the Audi and stepped out on the neat, semi-circular driveway, a man in a black ski mask galloped towards her from the idling Astra.
'Give me the keys or you'll get hurt,' he screamed. Shellie did as she was told.
'Don't call the police or we'll come back and get you,' he shouted as he jumped behind the wheel and peeled out of the driveway, his accomplice following on behind in the Astra.
Rhodes first went inside to check on the children, then called the police. And – like many similarly desirable cars stolen from Britons in very similar circumstances – the Q7 began its long journey to a place quite unlike Church Langton: it was heading for Kampala, Uganda.
A few days after the Audi theft, Surrey fireman Paul
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