Warning after private car seller duped by criminal gang

A CAR which was stolen near Mitchelstown last Monday when a bogus, would-be buyer asked to test drive it, has been found abandoned and burned out after being used by a Limerick gang to carry out a major robbery in Co Clare.

The high-powered English-registered, silver Vauxhall Vectra GSI model came to the attention a Limerick gang who have been scanning the Buy & Sell magazine and newspapers on the lookout for suitable get-away cars.

On Monday last, one gang member arranged to meet the owner of the Vauxhall Vectra after responding to an ad placed in Buy & Sell.