{"id":63,"date":"2023-11-14T12:13:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T12:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.mikestartup.com\/wp\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:57:13","slug":"international-millions-car-fraudster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/?page_id=63","title":{"rendered":"Scrace International \u00a3Millions Car Fraudster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When does defrauding the public reach such a large level that the Police just have to act?  <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently never &#8211; when the criminal is one of their &#8220;Informants&#8221;.  <br>With over 50 complaints by the public, as well as multiple CCJs, the Police always called this long time criminal&#8217;s thefts &#8220;<em><strong>Just a civil matter<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; whenever the public reported the loss of their vehicle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What was amazing was that, in spite of all the clear evidence, much of it being placed in the public area &#8211; as Crime Gazettes &#8211; the police were, apparently, &#8220;<em>unable<\/em>&#8220;* to join the dots. They did nothing to help existing victims and nothing to stop future victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Unwilling?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/?page_id=136\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"522\" src=\"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-for-Crime-Gazettes-shad.png\" alt=\"Click for Crime Gazettes\" class=\"wp-image-386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-for-Crime-Gazettes-shad.png 847w, http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-for-Crime-Gazettes-shad-300x185.png 300w, http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-for-Crime-Gazettes-shad-768x473.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, once the public calls for action left them no choice they did put forward 10 charges and Scrace was remanded on bail to go to Crown Court in Chichester<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/?page_id=116\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"414\" data-id=\"388\" src=\"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-to-view-10-Charges.jpg\" alt=\"All 10 charges\" class=\"wp-image-388\" srcset=\"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-to-view-10-Charges.jpg 936w, http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-to-view-10-Charges-300x133.jpg 300w, http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-to-view-10-Charges-768x340.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you will be able to see &#8211; <strong>the Judge was lied to<\/strong>. <br>It was even stated that multiple fraudster and con man John Scrace was a &#8220;<em><strong>man of good character<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;. This being totally against all available evidence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No restitution was ever made for the victims and most of the charges were &#8220;held&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scrace did not have to serve even a month in gaol for his hundreds of thousands of pounds gained through theft and fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/?page_id=113\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"920\" height=\"554\" src=\"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-for-full-10-Charges.png\" alt=\"Click for Transcript of Case\" class=\"wp-image-379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-for-full-10-Charges.png 920w, http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-for-full-10-Charges-300x181.png 300w, http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Click-for-full-10-Charges-768x462.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Undeterred, John and Angela Scrace went on to continue stealing people&#8217;s cars by fraud and committing similar crimes, collecting more CCJs, all &#8211; apparently &#8211; with the<strong> full approval of their friends at Worthing Police<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/?page_id=39\"><strong>Back to Main Index<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When does defrauding the public reach such a large level that the Police just have to act? Apparently never &#8211; when the criminal is one of their &#8220;Informants&#8221;. With over 50 complaints by the public, as well as multiple CCJs, the Police always called this long time criminal&#8217;s thefts &#8220;Just a civil matter&#8221; whenever the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/securicheck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}