Vauxhall

Small business co-owners Mark Lucas and Steve Davies, whose then-new Vauxhall Vivaro van became trapped in the building complex near Oxford Street in December 2022, said the saga had left them more than £46,000 out of pocket.

"The first thing we're going to do is is take it down to the Vauxhall garage that we got it from so that they can service it and do a diagnostic test on the battery and to find out if it's suffered at all."

The Metropolitan Police are particularly interested in speaking to witnesses on 21 April 2015, described as a female driving a black Vauxhall Corsa in the area between 21:45 BST and 23:00 and two males who returned to an address in Pear Court at 23:10.

Mark Lucas, co-owner of HCS Furniture in Buckinghamshire, parked his electric Vauxhall van at Rathbone Square, a building complex near Oxford Street, in December 2022.

The site of Vauxhall's Luton plant has been bought by an undisclosed commercial owner, days after the last van rolled off its production line.