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Woman flashes $27,000 in Springfield bar, gets robbed

George W. Graham

The Republican

 

October 20, 2009, 12:37PM

SPRINGFIELD – A 22-year-old woman, who flashed $27,000 in cash Monday night while inside an Indian Orchard bar, was held up at gunpoint around midnight after she left the bar with a male friend and walked towards her car.

Sgt. John M. Delaney said the victim, while inside the bar, bragged of receiving the $27,000 from an insurance claim.

Delaney, aide to Police Commissioner William J. Fitchet, said the victims told police they were robbed by two male suspects wearing dark clothing and bandanas, one armed with what appeared to be a semi-automatic handgun.

“Lesson learned...” Delaney said in prepared statement. “When you cash a settlement, put it in the bank.”

Detectives are probing the case, Delaney said.

October 22 2009

La-Z-Boy crash leads to DWI in Proctor

A Proctor man driving a motorized La-Z-Boy lounge chair hit a parked vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.

Mark Stodghill

Duluth News Tribune

 

 Proctor man driving a motorized La-Z-Boy lounge chair hit a parked vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.

Dennis LeRoy Anderson, 62, pleaded guilty Monday in St. Louis County District Court to DWI in connection with the Aug. 31, 2008, incident in Proctor. There were no injuries.

According to the criminal complaint, Anderson drove his motorized chair into a vehicle parked near a Proctor bar. Anderson told police he was traveling from the Keyboard Lounge after consuming approximately eight or nine beers. His blood-alcohol content was measured at 0.29 percent, more than three times the legal limit to drive.

Anderson claimed he was driving the chair fine until a woman jumped on it and knocked the chair off course. He has one prior DWI conviction. He couldn’t be reached for comment Wednesday.

Proctor Deputy Police Chief Troy Foucault said the chair was powered by a converted lawnmower with a Briggs & Stratton engine. It has a stereo, cup holders and other custom options, including different power levels.

A National Hot Rod Racing Association sticker is posted on the chair’s head rest. The chair had a small steering wheel, about a third of the size of a golf cart’s, coming straight up from the middle of the La-Z-Boy.

Proctor City Prosecutor Ronald Envall said he charged Anderson under the portion of Minnesota law that makes it a crime to operate a self-propelled motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol or drugs. He declined further comment.

Anderson had to forfeit his motorized chair to Proctor police, who plan to auction it with other forfeited items, Foucault said.

Duluth defense attorney David Keegan, who represented Anderson, declined comment.

Sixth Judicial District Judge Heather Sweetland sentenced Anderson to 180 days in the St. Louis County Jail or at the Northeast Regional Corrections Center and fined him $2,000 plus court fees. She stayed the jail time and one-half of the fine for two years of supervised probation. As conditions of his probation, Anderson must submit to a chemical dependency assessment, follow all recommendations

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October 21, 2009 05:50 am   

Police: Son drove as mother made heroin deliveries

Pattrick Anderson

Gloucester Daily Times
Staff Writer

 

A 46-year-old Gloucester woman has been arrested and accused of taking her 23-year-old son along with her on trips to buy and sell heroin.

Nancy Fulford of 7 Alpine Court was charged Monday night with possession of heroin and distributing heroin after Gloucester detectives found 10 individually packaged bags of the drug in a search of her bedroom, according to the police report.

Her son, Timothy Fulford, was charged with knowing where heroin was kept.

Police also confiscated a hypodermic needle and "numerous" prescription pills.

After her arrest at her home at 5:15 p.m. Monday, Nancy Fulford admitted to purchasing and then selling heroin in Gloucester around four times a week for the past four months, according to the police report.

In his own statement, Timothy Fulford said he had driven his mother around the city as she had made heroin deliveries.

‘Big Brother’ winner allegedly used prize to buy oxycodone

Martin Finucane

Globe Staff                                                                           

 

October 21, 2009

 

The grand prize winner of last year’s television reality show “Big Brother,’’ arrested Saturday in Massachusetts on an oxycodone distribution charge, allegedly told federal investigators that he used his winnings to purchase large amounts of the drug.

Adam Jasinski, of Delray Beach, Fla., was arrested at a North Reading strip mall and faces a charge of possession with intent to distribute oxycodone.

Jasinski allegedly agreed with a cooperating government witness to sell the witness 2,000 oxycodone pills. Jasinski flew from his home in Florida to Massachusetts Saturday to deliver the drugs, according to an affidavit filed Monday in federal court by a Drug Enforcement Administration agent in support of the charges.

The agent wrote that Jasinski and the witness met at Logan International Airport. On the drive to North Reading, Jasinski allegedly removed a sock from his “pelvic area’’ containing two plastic bags full of small blue pills.

When the two men stopped at the strip mall, agents approached the car. Jasinski allegedly struggled with agents and threw the sock under an adjacent parked car.

But after waiving his Miranda rights, the affidavit said, “Jasinski stated that for the past several months he had been obtaining thousands of pills of oxycodone and reselling them to customers all along the East Coast.’’

“Jasinski was able to purchase large quantities of pills because he had received $500,000 as the grand prize winner of the CBS reality television show ‘Big Brother Season 9,’ ’’ the affidavit said.

2 former firefighters, civilian clerk charged in disability fraud scheme

October 21, 2009 01:41 PM

By Donovan Slack

Globe Staff

 

Two former Boston firefighters were charged by federal prosecutors today with faking career-ending injuries to receive tax-free accidental disability pensions, while a fire department personnel clerk was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in the federal fraud investigation.

 

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Former district chief James Famolare, 65, and firefighter Albert Arroyo, 47, are facing multiple counts of mail fraud for seeking accidental disability retirements from the city of Boston for allegedly bogus on-the-job injuries, prosectors said.

Arroyo claimed last spring that he fell at a Jamaica Plain firehouse and could no longer work as a fire inspector, but he continued to train as a bodybuilder and participated in a competition just six weeks later.

Famolare claimed he suffered a severe back injury when he moved a box of files at headquarters while filling in as chief of personnel for a day. But prosecutors say Famolare had to shop for a doctor to bolster his claim and witnesses to the supposed injury later recanted.

The clerk, Erika Boylan, 31, allegedly lied while testifying under oath before a federal grand jury about delaying the processing of accidental disability retirement applications.

If convicted, Famolare and Arroyo face up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 on each count of fraud. Famolare has been charged with six counts and Arroyo faces two counts, according to the US Attorney's office. Boylan, if convicted, faces up to 15 years in prison.

Boston Fire Commissioner Roderick Fraser hailed the arrests as a step forward in his efforts to overhaul the Boston Fire Department.

"I’m glad the federal government has joined this fight," Fraser said. "We’ve been a full partner with the federal government, cooperating in the investigation. We will continue to work side by side to give taxpayers the department they deserve."

Federal prosecutors did not say whether more arrests are forthcoming in the probe.

The fraud investigation began 18 months ago and followed a series of Globe reports about disability pension fraud. The newspaper reported in January 2008 that Boston firefighters had claimed an unusual rash of career-ending injuries in recent years, sending the rate of disability retirements skyrocketing to 74 percent of all retirements -- more than twice the rate of similarly sized cities.

Between 2001 and 2007, some 167 firefighters reported career-ending injuries while on the job. A majority of them had claimed they were injured on the same day they were filling in for a supervisor, which allowed them to qualify for a pension at the higher pay rate. A state law designed to reform the pension system passed earlier this year eliminates that so-called "king-for-a-day" provision, which allowed firefighters who were filling in for superiors to receive pensions at the superiors' pay rate.

The Globe also reported that the processing of scores of disability pension applications were delayed for inordinate lengths of time, sometimes years, allowing firefighters to collect 100 percent of their salary, tax free, while they waited for their disability retirements to be approved.

The clerk indicted today, Boylan, allegedly lied to investigators while testifying under oath about participating in the delay of disability retirement applications. According to the indictment, Boylan said she never delayed them and was never asked to delay them. But the indictment said she was asked, "on at least one occasion to delay the processing of paperwork for a firefighter who had filed for accidental disability retirement."

Boylan was put on paid administrative leave today from the fire department, pending the outcome of the case.

Arroyo reported on March 21, 2008, that he had slipped on a stairway and injured his back. The incident occurred without witnesses in a firehouse where he was not assigned to work, records show. He went on injured leave and within weeks, a doctor recommended him for an accidental disability pension, saying he was "totally and permanently disabled."

But three days after his initial injury report, the indictment says, Arroyo worked out with a trainer at a Gold's Gym, and on May 3, Arroyo placed eighth in a men's bodybuilding competition, the 2008 Pro Natural American Championships. After the Globe published a video of the competition, Fraser ordered Arroyo back to work. When he didn't show, the fire commissioner fired Arroyo.

At the time, a lawyer representing Arroyo said bodybuilding was good for his back injury. But Arroyo didn't disclose the physical activity in his disability pension application submitted in June 2008, according to the indictment.

"In his application for disability retirement, Arroyo falsely stated that he had not participated in any sports or strenuous activities within the last year when in fact Arroyo had made numerous visits to various gyms during that one year period and was then training, including weight lifting, for a May 2008 body building competition," the indictment states.

Famolare claimed he suffered a career-ending back injury when moving a box of personnel files on June 18, 2006, when he was filling in for a single day as a deputy chief. He went out on injured leave at the higher pay rate, $155,000 per year, instead of his own, which was $127,000 annually.

Famolare collected the enhanced pay tax-free for more than two years while he awaited processing and approval of his disability retirement application, which would have awarded him 70 percent of the deputy chief's salary, tax free, for life. But in July 2008, his medical file was one of three that went missing from department headquarters and a witness who had signed his injury report recanted, saying he hadn't seen anything but had merely endorsed a form that Famolare asked him to sign.

Famolare abruptly withdrew his disability pension application, and asked for a regular, taxable pension instead. In a letter to the city's retirement board at the time, he said he was withdrawing his disability claim because he did not believe he could get a fair hearing.

The federal indictment says that shortly after his initial injury report, Famolare consulted with a doctor who declined to characterize his injury as so severe that he could never return to work as a fire department administrator.

"Shortly thereafter, in or about September 2006, Famolare had one visit with a second doctor ... who had never treated him before, but who had a reputation of regularly certifying total and permanent disability," the indictment says. "This second doctor immediately wrote a disability opinion after the one, short office visit with Famolare."

The indictment did not identify the doctor by name, but records show the physician is Dorchester neurologist Dr. John F. Mahoney. Mahoney is the same doctor who treated Arroyo and recommended him for accidental disability retirement.

Since 2001, Mahoney has evaluated 25 firefighters whose injuries he determined to be so severe that the city should award them accidental disability pensions, according to the records obtained last year under a public records request. A lawyer for Mahoney last year declined to comment on specific cases, but said in general, Mahoney made the best determinations he could based on information he was provided.

"Doctors don't have an obligation to independently corroborate injury," said the lawyer, Paul Cirel, citing Massachusetts court decisions regarding information provided by patients. "Doctors don't always agree on a prognosis; there is a fair amount of objectivity and there is a certain amount of subjectivity."

'Crash for cash' fraudster who staged 93 accidents in $1.6m insurance scam is jailed

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:09 PM on 21st October 2009

 

A fraudster who enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle on the proceeds of staged accidents and cost the insurance industry $1.6million was jailed today.

Mohammed Patel, 24, charged $500 a time to stage accidents which enabled fraudsters to claim an average of $17,000 from insurers.

He staged at least 93 crashes, earning himself around $46,000, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard.

Patel, of Nottingham Drive, Bolton, Greater Manchester, admitted one count of conspiracy to defraud, six counts of dangerous driving and four counts of driving while disqualified.

He was jailed for four-and-a-half years today and banned from driving for three-and-a-half years.

William Baker, prosecuting, said Patel's earnings funded an 'Aladdin's cave' at the home of his unemployed girlfriend Ettorina Hay.

The pair enjoyed luxurious foreign holidays and drove expensive cars, the court heard.

Mr Baker said the scam was only exposed after office workers at a construction company overlooking a major roundabout became suspicious 

Describing the set-up, Mr Baker said: 'One vehicle colliding with another at low speed with minor damage and often the same person driving the lead vehicle.

'They told drivers of the rear vehicles they thought they were the victim of fraud."

Mr Baker said: 'Mohammed Patel staged the road traffic accidents. He drove cars on to the roundabout and then stopped them so abruptly the vehicle behind could not avoid a collision.

'He did this because of the widely-held belief that the person who drives into the rear of someone else is in the wrong and they will admit liability.'

Fraudulent claims, submitted by people not present at the scene whom Patel purported to be, were then made.

Claims would include compensation for injuries, such as whiplash, damage to the vehicle, a hire car, and storage of the damaged vehicle.

Mr Baker said Patel staged the accidents between May 2005 and August 2008, and each claim averaged $17,000.

The cost to the motorist of a fraudulent 'cash for crash' claim is an extra $49 a year on their insurance premium, he addedMr Baker said: 'He spent more than $46,000 in cash on two cars, designer clothes, holidays, and paying the domestic bills of his girlfriend.

'There's evidence he received $500 per claim... and was involved in staging at least 92 collisions.'

Patel was arrested days after he was observed staging two accidents in a single day, the court heard.

On July 30 last year he staged an early afternoon collision at Junction 10 on the M65 near Burnley, Lancashire.

At around 5pm he staged another accident, while driving a Golf, at Trafford Park in Manchester, and gave a false name.

Mr Baker said that Patel was laughed at by the other party when he asked for $950 to cover the damage to his vehicle.

Suspicion: An aerial shot of Eden Point roundabout where office workers saw a series of similar crashes in late 2005

Patel was arrested in Bolton on August 7 last year and gave a prepared statement to police. He pleaded guilty to the charges at the earliest opportunity.

Patel paid $46,000 into his girlfriend's bank account, the court heard.

When police searched Hay's   Bolton home, they found receipts from stores including Selfridges, Toys R Us and Marks & Spencer.

A $965 receipt for a flat-screen television was discovered at the single mother's home.

A $10,000 second-hand Mercedes C Class Coupe and a $14,000 Lincoln Navigator, which cost a total of $3,700 to insure, were also in her name, the court heard.

The pair enjoyed trips to Turkey, Barcelona and France. Patel paid $1,000 for his girlfriend to visit her brother in South Africa and even contributed towards her grocery bill.

Mr Baker said: 'The two enjoyed a high lifestyle from the proceeds of fraud.'

He said Hay, who is from Malawi and has a son, 'enjoyed a much higher standard of living than she would have experienced living on benefits of $90 per week'.

Her home was newly decorated and 'full of expensive furniture and electrical equipment', Mr Baker said.

Hay admitted one count of converting criminal property and one count of possessing criminal property.

She is due to be sentenced on December 18 and faces a maximum sentence of seven years.

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Child's stare sparks restaurant argument

 

 

11:39 a.m. Wednesday, October 21, 2009

A College Park woman was charged with disorderly conduct after an argument at an Alpharetta restaurant that started because another customer's 5-year-old daughter was staring at her, police said.

The incident happened Oct. 1 at the McDonald's on North Point Parkway, according to an Alpharetta police incident report.

Ken Garrison told police that while he and his daughter were eating in a booth, Nicole Gomez, 39, became angry because the 5-year-old was looking over the back of the bench at her.

According to the report, Gomez "told Garrison that he needed to control his daughter because she was ‘[expletive] with her.' "

Told that she was being overly sensitive, Gomez "called Garrison a bitch and then moved to a booth further away," the report states.

Garrison told police that when he later went to refill his drink, he stopped by Gomez's booth and again told her that she was being overly sensitive, and Gomez then told him to "get out of my face, bitch."

As Garrison turned to leave, Gomez threw ice and a drink from a cup at him, according to the report, and he then asked the manager to call police.

Alpharetta police Officer J.P. Robinson wrote in the report, "I spoke with Gomez, who stated she was upset because the little girl was looking over the back of the bench and thought that Garrison was telling her to do it."

The officer also spoke with a McDonald's employee at the front counter who "stated she did not hear any of the cursing but did see Garrison at Gomez's table. She heard Gomez tell Garrison to please go away and leave me alone three times."

Gomez at first denied cursing, according to the report, but later admitted she called Garrison a "bitch" and used another expletive loud enough to be heard by other customers and by Garrison's daughter.  She was cited for disorderly conduct and released.

In 1998, Gomez was sentenced to six years in prison on child cruelty charges after pleading guilty to abandoning her newborn daughter in a Dumpster at the Clayton County apartment complex where she was living at the time. The baby survived, and Gomez was released from prison in 2002.

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Girl, 16, died from heroin overdose despite mother's pleas for social services to save her daughter

David Wilkes
7:27 PM on 20th October 2009

 

The despairing parents of a teenage girl pleaded with police and social services for help her after she got hooked on heroin - but the authorities did nothing to save her, an inquest heard today.

Schoolgirl Kate Walsh, 16, was popular and a talented flautist before she met 25-year-old drug addict Alex Charlamow and spiralled into addiction under his influence, the coroner was told.

Her parents Deborah and Anthony Walsh, a sound engineer, sought help to stop her in the months before her death from a heroin overdose but say she fell into a ‘grey area’ - being too old for children’s services and too young for adult care services, which begin at 18.

Kate ended up in hospital twice after overdosing as she moved between supported lodgings, squats, and spells back at her family home.

She was reported missing by her parents five days before workmen boarding up a squat in a red-light district of Swindon, Wiltshire, found her body.

Her mother said Kate had kept her relationship with Charlamow, who lived in the Salvation Army run rehabilitation centre close to her home in Highworth, near Swindon, a secret for a year and a half.

Mrs Walsh, 45, who gave up her job as a postmistress as she struggled to cope with her daughter’s death, told the inquest: ‘We didn’t find out until she was 16 and by then it was too late.’

When the rehab centre found out that Charlamow was in a relationship they kicked him out, as it was against the rules.

But Mrs Walsh criticised the centre, saying: ‘They didn’t take steps to find out who it was, and they knew it was a young girl.

Kate Walsh as a young girl before the heroin addiction took hold

‘I feel that the manager really failed. He failed Alex because Alex was supposed to be rehabilitated.

‘He failed Kate because she could then see Alex, and he failed us because we lost our daughter.’

Mrs Walsh recalled the agonising times when Kate would leave home, which began on May 3rd, 2003, and how she drifted in and out of ‘supported lodging’ houses and squats.

She said: ‘If a 16-year-old wants to leave home there’s nothing you can do about it. You’re not allowed to lock them in the house.’

The inquest at Trowbridge Town Hall heard how police once had a warrant to enter a house Kate was staying in with other drug users.

Mrs Walsh said: ‘We told them Kate was in there taking heroin, but they wouldn’t execute the warrant. They just went and knocked on the door and asked for her.

‘They said, “Your parents have reported you as missing”.

‘But she said, “I’ve been living away from home for six months.” And that was that.

‘They knew she was in there taking heroin, as was everyone else, but they didn’t do anything about it.’

She also told the inquest about a failed ‘strategy meeting’ that was set up by social services-appointed ‘personal advisor’ to Kate, Michaela Norton, while Kate was in a supported lodging.

‘The meeting was supposed to decide what was the best way forward to help Kate,’ said Mrs Walsh. ‘But no plan forward was agreed because Kate turned up, she said she’d taken various different drugs, so the meeting fell apart.

‘People had to go - there were other meetings. It was decided the case wouldn’t be placed on the child protection register because Kate had access to all the relevant agencies.

‘It wasn’t the right help. It wasn’t what Kate needed.’

Kate had to shoplift to fund her £150 day drugs habit and had been arrested for the crime, the inquest heard.

Her mother believes she should have been put into ‘secure accomodation’ by social services - similar to being sectioned under the Mental Health Act - instead of the ‘supported accomodation’ that was offered.

After her second overdose in November 2003, Kate said: ‘Mum, I did it on purpose - I don’t want to live.’

Mrs Walsh said she had then asked staff at Gloucester Royal Hospital to section her daughter. But a psychiatric nurse determined Kate was not suffering from a mental health disorder, the inquest heard.

Mrs Walsh said she told social services that next time Kate left home she would die.

I didn’t know about secure accomodation until after Kate died, which is why I asked for her to be sectioned. But now I know that’s what should have happened,’ she said.

Kate was reported missing by her parents for the last time on December 30th, 2003. Her body was found on January 3rd, 2004. The inquest was originally opened that month but has since been delayed because of ‘serious illness’ to an unspecified party.

 

The inquest continues.

 

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Goodbye crack, hello OxyContin

Stephen Lam/The Chronicle

 

Pills are the new focus in the Tenderloin

 

New Police Chief George Gascón's focus on undercover drug stings in the Tenderloin has had an interesting side-effect: far fewer sales of heroin and crack cocaine, and more sales of OxyContin and other pills.

We told you last month about "Operation Safe Schools," the focus on heroin and cocaine sales within 1,000 feet of schools. Under California law, such deals come with a bail enhancement and an extra three to five years in prison. Everybody arrested with the enhancement since the operation's start in mid-September remains in jail with a bail of at least $100,000.

But it seems the undercover operation has run its course.

"The guys who were selling the coke and heroin just aren't down there anymore. It kind of flushed them out," said Lt. Jim Miller of the field operations bureau. "Word's getting around that if you sell around the schools in the Tenderloin, you're not getting out of jail...It's a huge deterrent that we didn't anticipate."

That's not to say the Tenderloin has turned into Mayberry. Far from it. The dealers are still there; they're just selling painkillers like OxyContin which costs $40 a pill on the streets.

Asked whether he thought state law should be changed so dealing pills near schools comes with the same penalty as heroin and crack, Miller said, "Definitely."

"Pills now are a huge part of street sales, at least in some areas of San Francisco, and they're extremely addictive," he said. "And the kids don't see whether it's cocaine or a pill - all they see is some drug dealer across the street selling drugs. It really doesn't matter what's being sold - it still has the same impact on the kids."

 

Heather Knight

October 20 2009 at 11:15 AM

 

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99-year-old is safest driver - no speeding tickets in 84 years

99-year-old George Geeson could be Britain's safest driver.

 

Telegraph UK

10:37AM BST 20 Oct 2009

 

99-year-old George Geeson could be Britain's safest driver Photo: MASONS NEWS SERVICE

After 84 years of driving he has never had a speeding ticket or caused an accident during nearly one million miles at the wheel.

Mr Geeson got his licence at the age of 15 in 1925 driving a Model T Ford and bought his first car, a Wyllis-Overland Whippet, 10 years later for two pounds and ten shillings (£2.50).

He has owned dozens of cars and motorbikes in 84 years of driving and has no trouble on the roads despite never having to sit a formal driving test.

Mr Geeson, a grandfather-of-three, has only ever been involved in one accident - when another motorist shunted into the back of him in the pouring rain in 1958.

Mr Geeson a former garage owner, of South Witham, near Grantham, Lincs., said his driving motto is safety first and he had always been careful to observe the law.

He said: ''I have always said to myself if I stay on the right side of the law I've no reason to be scared of anyone or anything.

''We used to think that 60mph was very fast but now people seem to drive at 100mph and that's too fast for me.

''I've always been careful. Even the one accident I did have was down to somebody else."

Mr Geeson opened the Fox Garage on the A1 in Lincolnshire with his brother Leonard in 1932 when it was still known as the Great North Road.

He first got behind the wheel of a Ford Model T in 1925, as an apprentice earning just one penny an hour - but he could not afford to buy his own car until Christmas Day 1935.

Mr Geeson nows drives a red Peugeot 106, but said his first love will always be the Ford.

 

 

GEORGE'S CARS:

 

First drove a Model T Ford in 1925

 

Owned:

1935 - blue Willys-Overland Whippet

1937 - black Ford 8 saloon

1939 - black Ford Anglia 'standard'

1940 - blue Buick Special saloon

1941 - grey eight-seater Humber Pullman

1941 - grey Model A Ford

1953 - green Ford Popular

1959 - green with white top Ford Consul

1963 - Ford Consul

1965 - dark blue Jaguar 3.8 S-type

1970 - green Chrysler Valiant

1974 - dark blue Triumph Spitfire1500

1976 - blue Austin Maxi

1980 - green Austin 1100

1984 - Austin 1100

1997 - red Peugeot Diesel 306

2001 - red Peugeot 106