Buddleigh Salterton people - a question / a mystery situation

[SWnewstart]

Buddleigh is a about 30 mins from home and a favourite beach walking place (never seen it crowded)). We've been going several times a week since restrictions eased. Park in carpark next to the gardens behind Town Hall. There is a Citroen C4 (06 reg) which has been there for months (DP thinks it was there around Christmas time). The car is obviously abandoned. It's packed full of stuff - Christmas tree, small items of furniture, crockery, clothes and food shopping. Carriers have fallen open and items quite visible - beef mince complete with maggots / cheese / tuna salad growing fur in their packets, milk cartons bulging. The car has some notices attached asking owner to get in touch etc. I'm very curious - why can't the owner be traced via DVLA? What on earth could have happened? Inside that car is a positive health hazard and is nobody concerned about the owner?

I had an ex who had a breakdown and just walked away from his boat and it went mouldy. He's still alive but he was realty abusive to me so don't know the condition of him or his boat now!

If it's been there since Christmas, the mince should be well past the 'maggot' stage by now, surely? In all the heat we've been having since March, meat should be liquid by now...

So is someone going back and forth to it? Do the doors show any signs of having been opened in the interim?

Maybe the owner was arrested on the way to a port/ferry crossing and so is held due to being a flight risk?

Hope it's not that they were taken ill suddenly and hospitalised.

Well we've been back today for a lovely brisk walk to blow cobwebs away (Buddleigh has charm in all weathers). Taken a few photos of car contents and managed to read the notices taped on rear window in more detail. A named individual (not putting it here) from East Devon DC advises that unless vehicle removed by "2 June 2020" a £200 fine would be imposed.

The exterior of car is quite clean (given its been standing since December) but I didn't want to go trying doors. The cobweb on driver's seat would suggest car not been opened for a while. If I ring the non-emergency police number, will they think I am being really nosy and the Council have matters in hand?

I think if you explain the rotting mince, that it’s been there since December and you’re just really concerned about where the owner is or what might have happened to them, they will see you’re not just being nosey

UPDATE - there was an article in local newspaper talking about attempts to trace the vehicle owner had failed and it would shortly be removed. Went to Buddleigh again last week and the car has gone. I don't envy whoever got the job of opening up to remove all that rotten food!

@SWnewstart

UPDATE - there was an article in local newspaper talking about attempts to trace the vehicle owner had failed and it would shortly be removed. Went to Buddleigh again last week and the car has gone. I don't envy whoever got the job of opening up to remove all that rotten food!

I’d seen this a few times pre lockdown I can’t believe it was there so long. It’s so sad. I hope whoever it belonged to was OK 😞