UK driver's Italy ordeal
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• A Yorkshire driver's ti was hijacked and his £85,( load of lambskin pelts stol. a four-hour ordeal 70km s of Rome. The company in volved, York-based Chark Grant Transport, claims ti the incident was one of m "covered up by the Italian police".
Driver Charles Wright, partner in the company, v woken in his cab at 3am four armed intruders. TN beat him with an iron bar, bound him with tape and the load for three hours t wards Naples. They then tached the brand-new Ov lander trailer and dumped blindfolded Wright in the on a motorway hard shou leading into Naples. An It trucker rescued Wright, , was taken to hospital but leased later the same day Subsequent events hav vinced Wright and his cot that violent truck hijacks being hushed up. 0 As CM went to pres son Transport driver Jim lett was stranded in Czec vakia with his Volvo F12, which had been impound( the police, pending paym a 22,300 fine for an alleg overloading offence.