This is the dramatic moment investigators opened a shipping container at a UK port hiding three stolen pick-up trucks which were intended to be smuggled to Africa.

The three vehicles worth at least £40,000 each were found to have been stacked on top of each other in the container which was intercepted at Felixstowe in Suffolk.

Experts told a new Channel 4 Dispatches documentary that Hyundai, Kia, Toyota and Lexus cars were increasingly being stolen as well as higher-value Range Rovers.

The Middle East and Africa have a huge market for second-hand car parts, driving the demand for stolen cars in the UK which is also linked to illegal drugs market.

The sting was carried out by Adam Gibson, an officer from the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS), a privately-funded force working with the UK police.