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Witham thief who made a million stealing luxury cars told to

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THE leader of a gang who made millions bugging luxury cars to steal them on an unprecedented scale has been ordered to pay back less than £100,000.Alan Watkins, 45, of Maltings Lane, Witham, placed tracking devices under vehicles so he could choose when and where to take them in one of the UK's biggest ever "ringing" scams.Using sophisticated programmes, his gang hacked into the car's onboard computer to make a copy of the electronic key.Watkins was eventually caught, along...

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