A woman was left in tears this morning in Letterkenny when custom officers arrived at her place of work and seized a car she had been using.
The woman, who did not wish to be named, hit out at heavy-handed officials who swooped on the Letterkenny Retail Park’s car park just before noon.
The officers were accompanied by two men in a recovery truck, used to tow away the Northern Ireland-registered Ford.
“They shouldn’t have taken the car,” the woman told Donegal Daily.
“The car belongs to my boyfriend. It is taxed in the North, it is insured in his name in the North and it is tested. The car is completely all above board.
“They even damaged the front and back bumper when they were trying to put it on the lorry.”
The area was a hive of Friday activity as onlookers and shoppers watched the incident unfolding.
“I was at work and I was just going out to do shopping at the time. They were very cheeky to me and told me they would be calling the guards. It was very heavy-handed of them to do that, landing to my work like that.”
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