A HAULAGE company have circulated CCTV images on social media of a man they believe used stolen fuel cards to fraudulently obtain thousands of pounds of fuel from Hampshire garages.

In the early hours of October 29, five lorries, parked in the Seatrans depot in Felixstowe had their drivers side window smashed, in an incident that was initially thought bbto be merely an act of vandalism. However further checks of the vehicles revealed that the perpetrators had in fact stolen fuel cards, used by drivers to pay for fuel and charge it directly to the company had been stolen.

Later that day from 10am-1pm cards were used to purchase over 4000 litres of fuel worth almost £5,000 from unmanned garages in Portsmouth and Southampton

CCTV footage shows a man in a white high-top Ford Transit van pumping fuel into containers inside the vehicle.

The van was tracked using its the registration to a company in Southampton, however, the plates belonged to a different vehicle entirely..

Frazer Smith Managing Director of SEA Transport said: “Despite reporting the incident to Suffolk Police no real headway or urgency has been attached to the crime. In fact we visited the owners of the van yesterday and the Police had not even been in contact. We have raised the matter with the Police and Crime Commissioner for Suffolk and the Deputy Chief Constable and are waiting to hear further. We have circulated the photographs on facebook and all truck dealers in the Southampton and Portsmouth areas, in an effort to trace the individual in the photographs.”