SCARD History

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The Thursday evening of January 30th 1992 was cold damp and foggy. At 7.20pm my son Steven, a young man age 27 was on his way home after taking his newly purchased Mini Traveller for a top up of petrol ready for his journey to work in Huddersfield early next morning.

He had finished work at around 5.30, arrived home at about 6pm cooked his tea. He decided to get his petrol that night rather than risk not finding a petrol station open the following morning. He called at the T.S.B bank in Heckmondwike to draw £10 from the cash machine and then called at the Morison's supermarket for his petrol. He had only been away from his home just a few minutes, in anticipation of spending a night in "front of the box" he had even left his television, lights and heating on. He had not even had time to open his daily newspaper, The Sun, which still lay folded on his chair. It carried the headline "Mike Tyson jailed for rape".

After leaving the petrol station he had less than half a mile to travel to his home. What happened in the following few minutes was to devastate hundreds of peoples lives. All because 2 well known local car thieves of the local community who had been taking drugs and drinking all day thought it was okay take someone else's property without permission.

Initially a gang of about 6 youths had stood for several minutes arguing about which of them should steal the car. The car had been securely locked with the keys as well as having an anti theft devise on the steering wheel by the lady who owned it. The 2 were well known "joy-riders". One was 18 years old, the other just 13. The older thief was also drunk.

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