The Role of Credit Card in the Second Attack

Detectives were aware that someone had stolen a car in Leeds a week before. In the Cortina, the thief had found a credit card which they used to buy items including a £20 parka pen and video game called Scramble. It was clearly likely there was a connection between the rape and the car theft. Detectives did the right thing by asking for copies of 20 vouchers that had been used in making purchases with a stolen credit card. Unbeknown to detectives at the time, one of the vouchers had actually been used to buy petrol for the stolen Ford Cortina used in the second attack. The cashier working at the garage had written the Cortina's number on the