A 20-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with a string of car thefts in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

Morton Morton, of Stowford Road, Barton, Oxford, appeared at Oxford Magistrates’ Court yesterday accused of stealing a Mercedes C270 in The Limes, Crowmarsh Gifford, between March 22-23.

He was also accused of stealing a Volkswagen Passat in Aylesbury on March 12 and a Peugeot 307 from Lower Assendon, Henley, between March 13-14.

Morton is also charged with two counts of theft from a motor vehicle and receiving stolen goods after two sets of number plates were stolen from vehicles in Kidlington between March 14-28.

Morton was released on bail to appear at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on May 29.