The 7000-mile trip Britain's stolen cars are now taking... all the way to Uganda - The Independent

Thieves had broken into the McSwineys’ home, stolen keys to the two family cars and driven off with both of them. An Audi A6 was recovered that night, but the second – the Audi Q7 – had gone. When British police found the Q7 while on the trail of a stolen Lexus in Kampala, officers also found Range Rovers, BMWs, Mercedes and even a Nissan Micra – all stolen from Britain. British police and their East African partners seized stolen UK cars worth more than £1m in Uganda in June. “We began to see an increase in the number of cars being stolen last autumn,” Paul Stanfield, regional manager for east and southern Africa in the Intelligence and Operations Directorate of the UK’s National Crime Agency, told The Independent. “The route from London to Kampala has been there for several years but we’ve seen a spike more recently,” said Mr Stanfield, with the majority of thefts taking place in London and the south-east. Stolen vehicles are often presented as “personal goods” on container manifests and sometimes covered up with items such as furniture. Source: www.independent.co.uk