A London car compound that holds uninsured vehicles seized by police is starting to fill up with flash motors.

It is thought that the high insurance costs associated with the top end motor market is one of the reasons why Mercedes, Porsches, BMWs and even Hummers are now lining the hold.

The image is far removed from the archetypal view that it is only low-income banger-driving criminals that do not bother to insure their vehicles.

However, the net is starting to close in five London Boroughs, which have allowed ordinary beat police, as opposed to just specialist traffic officers, to seize and impound vehicles that are uninsured in an operation entitled Reclaim.

Chief Superintendent David Snelling told the Times newspaper: "We are hoping to send the message to people who routinely drive without insurance that they will not get away with it."

Uninsured drivers are widely seen as a scourge by insurance companies that say they are collectively costing honest motorists millions of pounds in additional premiums.

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