KB-2024-001402 - [2025] EWHC 2492 (KB)

The police records show that the vehicle was examined on 27 July 2021 in an outside bay at a police garage. The report of the examination notes that there were witness reports of two males, one carrying a green jerry can running away from Ryan Court (where the Burned Passat was set on fire) at about 0330 hours on 23 June 2021 and getting into another car and moments later smoke was seen coming from Ryan Court. The vehicle was noted to be forensically lifted to the police garage and stored outside due to H&S under tarpaulin. The car was noted to be substantially burnt out. The bonnet was missing. It is noted that no VW badges remain. The majority of the paintwork had been burnt off by the fire but a small amount of blue paint (dark) was noted to remain.

I will come back to the issue of the bonnet later.