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My grandfather didn't see anyone in the car park and my grandmother who was sat in the car at the time, noticed a few 'dodgy looking fellas' in a van just watching everyone going about their business. She thought nothing else of it though; they had just stopped in to pick up a few bottles of wine to take on holiday with them the next day. I'm not sure if one of the men that morning saw the wine and thought "ahah! doddery old person and wine equals cash!", one can only speculate but this is what happened.
That evening the police came around as they were packing and explained that he had allegedly knocked over a troley boy and drove off leaving him seriously hurt. The policeman was very nice and apologetic about the whole saga, however, he had to be cautioned because he had drank a glass of wine at dinner (apparently). The police said its not the first time that this sort of incident has been reported in the Beverley area and it was possibly an insurance scam. Naturally my grandfather rang the insurance company (Zurich I think) to explain what had happened. They were very interested and the fraud department rang them back and re-questioned him on a situation he knew nothing about, the fraud department said that there are patterns cropping up in the East Yorkshire area and if they hear anything else to let them know.
After a police investigation of the CCTV footage and questioning the manager of the store to see if any member of staff had reported injury etc., nothing untoward was found and no similar vans have been spotted in the area since. The insurance company have also dropped the case since no one has actually put a claim in yet (this was a month ago).
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