A driver returned to her car to find fake number plates stuck to the back of it. Charlotte Grundy was going to collect her sunglasses from her vehicle in Hale on Saturday afternoon when she noticed the colour of her number plate wasn't quite right.
She realised that it had a film on it - and that it wasn't her number plate at all - it was a fake one that had been stuck on. READ MORE: Man stabbed in early morning attack in Manchester city centre "Everyone is saying it was being prepped to be stolen," Charlotte told the M.E.N.
She fears that someone may have been plotting to break into her flat to get the key for her car - but that they got 'disturbed'. "We just don't know, it's quite scary," she said.
Charlotte said the fake plate isn't registered with the DVLA - so it wouldn't come up on any ANPR cameras. People online, in the Hale and Altrincham General Facebook group, believe that the film on the number plate is designed to be reflective so the cameras can't pick it up.
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