Motorists in Talbot Green, Cardiff, Aberdare and Rhondda were stopped and asked to read the registration plate of a vehicle parked 20m (65ft) away.

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Baumgartner -- who was driving a dark blue Ford F-150 with what was likely his mother's license plate -- will be brought back to Edmonton, the statement read.

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In a statement read in the court, Mr Elmore, a civil engineer working with McNicholas, said the plate - 18in from the lamppost - was cut five days before the incident while clearing the area to lay new cables.

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