What happens to a vehcle used in serious crime ?

[RetroTed]

Watching crimewatch at the moment and this chap Tabak. Terrible crime etc but I'm wondering what happens to his car after all of the forensic tests have finished.
He's not going to be using it again is he......
So does it get crushed, sold at auction, returned to the spouse or partner ? This goes for any vehicle used in a serious crime ie gun crimes, murders, hit and runs etc
Also has anybody on here purchased a car with a shadey past?????

Curious am I..

[2 Wycked]

http://www.bernardomahoney.com/rrmurders/main.shtm...

The Range Rover is still about, there are some pretty gruesome images from the murders on that chap's website too.

[Russell B]

They usually get driven really really fast

[Kiltox]

I've heard that if someone is eg shot in a car it is Cat B (if it's contaminated with human tissue) but I don't know about one used in serious crime.

[RetroTed]

2 Wycked said:

http://www.bernardomahoney.com/rrmurders/main.shtm...

The Range Rover is still about, there are some pretty gruesome images from the murders on that chap's website too.

OMFG!!!. Those pics are grim

[martin mrt]

2 Wycked said:

http://www.bernardomahoney.com/rrmurders/main.shtm...

The Range Rover is still about, there are some pretty gruesome images from the murders on that chap's website too.

The only reason that Range Rover is still in circulation is because Pat Tate (rear seat passenger) crashed Tony Tuckers (front seat passenger) Porsche in the weeks before the murders, and bought the RR on finance, the finance reclaimed the car and sold it on to settle the debt!!!

[Panda76]

That rangie was bought by some indie landy garage who then sold it on to "collectors" of this weird st for a good price.After they had err valeted the interior.
It's been on Ebay a couple of times in the last few years marketed as a collectors vehicle.
Weird st huh.

[robsco]

The old Rangey is definitely one of the most (in)famous examples of this. I certainly couldn't drive a vehicle like that after knowing what happened within it... perhaps the owners haven't seen the photos.

[Tom H]

Good British film as well, as I remember. But yes the photos are fairly nasty.

[twazzock]

They use it in a funny crime, like clown rape, as a form of therapy.

[Nick3point2]

Tom H said:

Good British film as well, as I remember. But yes the photos are fairly nasty.

Essex boys or rise of the footsoldier? Much prefer the latter.

[Waugh-terfall]

My school Maths teacher is serving 17yrs to life for Murder, at the time (2008) he was driving a fully loaded 06 Mercedes SLK350 and a 2004 BMW 760Li (so both worth a fair bit), I've always wondered what happened to them, and to the house he co-owned with the woman he killed...

[2 Wycked]

martin mrt said:

The only reason that Range Rover is still in circulation is because Pat Tate (rear seat passenger) crashed Tony Tuckers (front seat passenger) Porsche in the weeks before the murders, and bought the RR on finance, the finance reclaimed the car and sold it on to settle the debt!!!

I did not know that, cheers!

[EDLT]

Waugh-terfall said:

My school Maths teacher is serving 17yrs to life for Murder, at the time (2008) he was driving a fully loaded 06 Mercedes SLK350 and a 2004 BMW 760Li (so both worth a fair bit), I've always wondered what happened to them, and to the house he co-owned with the woman he killed...

The house was probably buried under flowers left by people who'd never met either of them. As for the cars, I know someone who's car was stolen used in 5-6 armed robberies then recovered by the police and returned to the owner. Didn't seem any worse for it imo.

[Waugh-terfall]

I don't find the photos that grim, a couple make my grimace a bit, but generally don't bother me. Am I cold?

[2 Wycked]

Waugh-terfall said:

I don't find the photos that grim, a couple make my grimace a bit, but generally don't bother me. Am I cold?

They don't have an effect on me personally, either, but there's no denying that they are pretty grim. You may be considered cold by some.

[CanadianScot]

Waugh-terfall said:

I don't find the photos that grim, a couple make my grimace a bit, but generally don't bother me. Am I cold?

Same, I can look at them with no effect. I have one friend in particular that I can guarantee would faint at those pictures though.

[WeirdNeville]

Generally speaking they go unclaimed and get scrapped after being left to rot for a couple of years.

[RetroTed]

2 Wycked said:

They don't have an effect on me personally, either, but there's no denying that they are pretty grim. You may be considered cold by some.

Stronger stomach than me.His eye on page 10 or 11 is just freaky

Anyway back on topic, any stories to be told ?

[AlexiusG55]

Well, it didn't have any bits of people left in it, but my dad's car was stolen and used in an armed robbery. When it was found abandoned with some windows smashed and I think some other damage, it was eventually returned to us- though we had no inkling that it had been found until we received a call from the storage company saying that if we didn't pick it up they'd start charging us for storage.

Forensics had clearly been over it with a fine-toothed comb- there was fingerprint powder all over the interior. That got cleaned while it was being repaired, and we still use the car. The robbers, as far as we know, are still at large. Just goes to show: if you want to commit an armed robbery in London, a silver Prius is probably the car to use as there are so many of them!