Engineer who drove Irish rental car back to Norwegian home jailed

Company contacted Bjorn Erlend Tveter and asked him to return the car but he told them he needed it and was going to hold on to it for a couple of months. He was asked to surrender it to the police in Norway but declined.

Phone and email contact continued with Tveter but the car was flagged as stolen and recovered by police in Norway

A Norwegian telecom engineer who drove an Irish rental car across Europe to his home country, in breach of his agreement, has been given a three-month jail term.

Bjorn Erlend Tveter, aged 41, declined to return the car after the company contacted him when they were alerted that the car had been caught speeding in the Netherlands. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that 9,000 miles (14,480km) were clocked up on the car.