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Stolen motorbikes worth £350k found at Tilbury thanks to tracker
Police discovered about 20 motorbikes inside a shipping container thanks to a tracking Metropolitan Police said the haul at Tilbury docks in Essex, believed to have been stolen, was worth about £350, Taylor, the founder of the tracker company, told the BBC he was "absolutely elated" when the collection was said they were trying to trace the vehicle owners.
Mr Taylor explained that his company, BikeTrac, had been tracing one bike for several weeks that had been stolen from Richmond in south-west was not expecting police to find more bikes at Tilbury on 21 May."When we started 15 years ago, the average recovery rate in the industry was about 40%... now it's over a 90% chance of getting your bike back if you've got a tracker on it."A Met Police spokesperson said no arrests had been made.
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