I had the same with my Volvo 164 a few years ago - stolen from a Council-rented lock-up nearby, and was told by a nice old lady who had my number and watched it all happen. I got an invaluable (!) crime number from the Police who told me they do nothing about car-theft..... However, we know where old cars go to be banger-raced and asked at the village garage. A truck-driver overheard and told us where he'd seen it behind a high hedge at a former battery-chicken place.
We went down an adjacent footpath and saw it there so told the Police - they didn't want to do anything about it UNTIL I suggested we'd trespass with our van-plus-trailer to retrieve it. They only got off their butts then, to advise me I would be breaking the law..... They entered with us, I showed them the V5 (despite that proclaiming it isn't proof of ownership) and asked the land-owner where he got the car: "£80 from a man at the pub" but they didn't continue with investigations.
So as has been said before, what exactly is breaking the law? When is it OK to handle stolen goods? Also how does one prove one owns a vehicle if not the V5: I bought my car privately many years earlier, before the seller died! Strikes me selective criminology.
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