A 35-year-old Sydenham man has been arrested and charged for reporting that his BMW car had been taken by hijackers when in fact he had left it with a woman friend.

The man went to the police in Mayville on Wednesday and reported that he had been hijacked by two armed men. While on patrol, police came across a car which matched the description of the "hijacked" vehicle parked outside a house in Sparks Estate.

They towed it to the police station and that evening a young woman came to the station with the car keys. She said she and a friend had spent the night with the man and he had given them the keys.
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• This article was originally published on page 2 of The Mercury on March 09, 2004