This is abit of a long story so bear with it
When I purchased the scooby I had to pick it up from West Reading on my own, so I left the miggy there in the farm car park (farm industrial estate thing) with the intention of collecting it the next week when the missus was around. That weekend she was ill and unable to safely drive so I went to check up on it and the farm had put a notice on the car saying private parking, please move. So I did, I moved it just outside of the farm parked by the side of the road outside of someone's house. I came back the next weekend with the missus and picked it up.
When I got there I noticed the key fob didn't work. Bugger, battery is flat I think, and go to use the key in the door. The central locking came to life. Istarted her up and thought, that was wierd. Anyway, got the miggy home and thought nothing of it until a couple of nights ago when I friend called and said Ihave this wierd story Ineed to tell you:
The police had been in touch asking for her help, she duly got in touch and they said they had a letter with her name and address on it which they had found in an abandoned vehicle in Newbury. They wanted to trace the owner but the insurance had lapsed, did she know whose car it was. The car was a mondeo with a reg XYZ (this reg is very similar to mine one digit out in fact)
I put 2 and 2 together and came to the conclusion that my car had been broken in to (forcing the lock maybe hence the central locking issue?) and searched by the police after being parked by the side of the road for a week. They had found a letter in there which Ihadn't posted because it fell between the seats. They had gotten the reg wrong when checking it against the database, concluded it had no insurance (not the case) and started to find the owner.
I did not know the police had any power to break in to a vehicle that was legally parked (public road "siding") unless there was an immediate threat to life (dog or child in a hot car for example)
Is this right? What recourse may I have? I haven't checked the lock for damage yet, but I shall be.