Man jailed for theft of rental campervan (1 Viewer)

scotjimland

LIFE MEMBER
Jul 25, 2007
2,086
9,033
Suffolk Coastal District, UK
Funster No
15
MH
Timberland
Man is jailed over campervan theft

3:00pm Monday 30th July 2012 in News
David Sheridan
A MAN who rented a £70,000 campervan that disappeared into Europe within hours has been jailed for 16 months.

David Sheridan, 57, booked out a campervan from Abacus van hire for three days.

But just five hours later it was being shipped out of Dover, Bournemouth Crown Court heard.

Sheridan told police he had been burgled, but later pleaded guilty to the theft. Automatic number plate recognition cameras picked up the van driving in the freight lane at Dover on April 26, prosecutor Stuart Ella-cott told the court on Friday.

“Cameras on the continent were not on,” Mr Ellacott said. “The van has disappeared, as it were.”

A warrant is out for the defendant’s son John Sheridan, who collected the vehicle with his father after paying a deposit. James McCrim-dell, mitigating, said Sheridan senior had poor health, had cancer and was on a ventilator.

Sentencing, Judge John Harrow said Sheridan, from Cambridgeshire, had cost the van owners the van plus rental income.

Judge Harrow said: “It seems to me this was a dishonest activity from the outset.

“I say that because within hours of being collected this vehicle was on its way to France.”

The crime was so serious that a prison sentence could not be avoided, he added.

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/9844914.Man_is_jailed_over_campervan_theft/
 
Last edited:

Jim

Ringleader
Jul 19, 2007
36,196
128,634
Sutton on Sea, UK
Funster No
1
MH
Adria Panel Van.
Exp
Since 1988
The guy tried to get away Rapido down the Autocruise but for once the police were Swiftly on his AutoTrail, now he'll die in jail. Life is a Bischoff :Smile:
 

Snowbird

LIFE MEMBER
Apr 24, 2009
11,818
22,345
Liverpool.
Funster No
6,422
MH
Fifth wheel.
Exp
Since 11-05-2000
Not bad work if you can get it. He will be out in around 30 weeks time and whilst being kept by you and I will have earned more than £2000 per week. What they should have done was detained him till he told them where it was, then sentenced him. The poor guy that rented it to him will have to replace at his own cost out of his own pocket.

Subscribers  do not see these advertisements

 

Join us or log in to post a reply.

To join in you must be a member of MotorhomeFun

Join MotorhomeFun

Join us, it quick and easy!

Log in

Already a member? Log in here.

Latest journal entries

Funsters who are viewing this thread

Back
Top