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

At 1930 on Sunday 20 June 2021 a 999 call was made by a man calling himself Roman Bair, reporting the Burned Passat as stolen. The transcript of the call has been agreed between the Claimants and the Second Defendant. The caller said he would have reported it sooner but he thought his son had it, but his son had come and confirmed he didn’t have it. He said it had been parked outside 322 Streatham High Road which he said was his home address. The date of birth given for Mr Roman Bair was 23 June 1965. He stated he had one vehicle key as it only came with one when he bought it. He said he had owned the car for about 9 to 12 weeks. He said the last time he had seen it was 1.30 the previous day. When asked evening or afternoon, he says “evening, no afternoon”. He said he noticed that it was missing at about 1.30, 2 o’clock that day. He confirmed the key had been with him in the house the whole time. He did not have an email address that could be used to contact him.

The police were of the view that the caller did not sound like Mr Bair. Their investigations revealed no one with the name of Roman Bair lived at 322 Streatham High Road.

DI Andrews has said the investigation team carried out enquiries in order to identify Roman Bair but the line of enquiry came to nothing.