Sheppard put a lot of information in to the court bundle pointing to allegations of police misconduct. However Mr Coulters claim against the Chief Constable made no allegation of wrongdoing. The original proceedings were a straight forward claim for negligence, in that the police were told that the car was not at Britannia Motors, (it was later found by Mr Coulter in a boarded up building 60m behind Britannia Motors), not only was it being concealed, but the car dealer Stuart Burke, that we now know had a brother who was a serving Dorset Police Officer, and Stuart was bragging to Mr Coulter that he would never get the car back, and that Burke would chop it up and sell the pieces, if Mr Coulter attempted legal action for recovery. The Police had the power to inmpound this car under section 19 of PACE, the Deputy Chief Constable had an LLB in law, and knew this. However both he and the county council lawyer Mike Davies both lied about the power thay had to impound the car. Britannia Motors was a large car park with 2 glass buildings, one a workshop, the other the office. Nowhere on the Britannia Motors site could this Jeep be unseen.

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