Upon first inspection, the red shipping container sitting in an Essex storage site would have looked unremarkable but the police officers who opened it up knew better.
Luxury cars are being smuggled out of the UK in shipping containers, disguised under false papers. Fewer than five in every 100,000 containers leaving the UK are searched.
The staggering data brings shame on the police for failing to solve a single crime of car theft. Shockingly, officers shut down some cases in less than 24 hours of them being opened.