Hi...Just seen your thread and know exactly how your mum feels. I live just 10 minutes outside Kenilworth and on the 19th December popped out to Balsall Common to the Garden Centre and my phathom black Audi TT roadster was stolen from the drive, reg number Private plate J8 00 JUU (2007) red leather interior 18" alloy's low mileage.
Police believe three people broke into our house (footprints in the snow helped!) found the spare keys hidden away in a kitchen drawer for the TT and my partners Lexus although we were out in that car at the time. They ransacked all electrical goods (TV's laptops wii etc etc) from the house and all our christmas presents from upstairs and were gone.
Police think we were also watched and they were waiting for us to go out however they took a chance as it was the really snowy weekend before Christmas and we almost turned back as the roads were so bad. We checked the lanes the next day and found my partners claw hammer which had been dropped from a car so they were serious in getting away and not being stopped in the process.
Couple of questions that might link us is a neighbour saw a white pick up and took the reg number so police are looking into this, also I had just recently had to have my car in a body shop in Coventry as a third party missed the cross roads by our house and ended up in our front garden which caused extensive stone damage to our cars in the driveway, so both cars had only recently been returned to us mine with over £5000 of work done including a new hood. Police think there could be a link.
Anyway I wish you luck there has been no sight or sound of my TT and I am gutted had it since new and loved it. It is so awful to be targeted like this we feel so angry. We have now installed CCTV, upgraded the alarm etc so hope it helps. However the car insurance people are now trying to rip us off with a ridiculous offer for my car so will be lucky if I manage to replace what I had.
