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Lorry driver cleared of boat theft
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A 4 5-YEAR-OLD lorry driver bought a stolen speed boat, engine and trailer worth
for 000, a court heard this week.
But Ronald Harding had no idea they were stolen. And at Inner London Crown Court, Harding, of Tyson Road, Forest Hill, was cleared of handling stolen goods in August last year.
The Court heard the boat and trailer were stolen from a garage in Bromley live months earlier, and later turned up on the drive or a house close to where Harding lived.
When police, acting on a tip-off, arrested Harding he said he bought the boat for 04/0 from a man called Brian in the Royal London Docks.
He said he agreed to pay die unidentified man a further COO for the boat and trailer but the in never came hack.
The prosecution had alleged that Harding had resprayed the distinctive bright orange boat white to hide the fact that it was stolen.
But in evidence Harding said he had simply resprayed it to match his van.