Possibly another negative, no I didn’t go to view the car, primarily due to being busy with work and it being due for delivery to a friends bodyshop to be stripped down to a shell for a rebuild so I wasn't to worried about the condition. I was talking to him on the phone for about 30 minutes about the car and his job, life and past/current cars.
i had no concern that he was a rat but certainly a lesson learnt for sure.

Much agreed I certainly have enough evidence for a case, but currently neither the police/bank or action fraud have wanted it so I’m not sure why that is.