It's hardly stealing with ease, is it? Compared to hot-wiring, this is fairly difficult. Anything can be stolen-given sufficient effort.

With respect it's hardly difficult though. I wouldn't want to spend £43k on a car only to find out that a broken windown and 3 minutes work with an electronic gizmo is all it takes to wake up in the morning to an empty drive. Fully agree that if a thief wants your car there is very little you can do to stop it.

The good news is that car theft has declined massively since the late eighties.

And it tends to be expensive cars that get stolen - which is good news for the rest of us.

Could this be the return of the KrookLock and other steering wheel locks

They're very easy to defeat. The only one I see in use is on an N reg Astra owned by an elderly gentleman. The car is invariably parked with a steering wheel lock AND a similar device on the gear lever. No doubt the owner wil argue that he fact that the car has not been stolen 'proves' that the devices work!

I always park next to a nicer car. Also, car thieves fall into two groups; ones who want the car and ones who merely wish to steal your radio and anything you've got lying on the seats. Never leave your handbag in your car where it's visible.

Back in the early 90s when car crime was rife, I had a client who had a steering wheel lock on his GTE. Someone broke in one night but could not steel it, the next night they broke in and tried to smash it off but still could not get it off.

The next night he got his babies wireless baby monitor and put the bit you put in the kids room in the car and put the speaker by his bed. He was woken early in the morning by noise from the speaker. He went out with a baseball bat and performed a citizens arrest on the thief who had come back with a replacement steering wheel to get round the steering lock.

Baby monitors are good for catching thieves, especially if you have your own justice system