According to the decision of the Central District Court in London, a woman researcher at the Oxford University received compensation of  £114,000 (about US$152,000) because of a strange story related to her mechanic and a damaged model of one of the Porsche 911, reports The Daily Mail.

Dr. Penelope Horlick, a specialist in the field of Neanderthals and the Middle Paleolithic period, has been working at the famous university since 2003. In 2008, she purchased a 1997 Porsche 911 Targa with a 3.6-liter six-cylinder M64 engine and a Tiptronic automatic transmission.

The air-cooled sports car was used occasionally for trips to Oxford until August 2010, when Horlick crashed while driving around a puddle on a wet track. As a result, the car had an oil leak and was no longer put into operation.

Dr. Horlick enlisted the help of a mechanic named Jagjiwan Jhally to fix the German sports car after the accident. Jhally agreed to carry out the repair work, presenting the woman with a cost of UK pounds equivalent to about 12 thousand US dollars.

But over the next ten years, Horlick's attempts to obtain new information on her car were met with extreme hostility. Having finally given up hope, Horlick decided to replace her aforesaid sports car in 2014 and bought an Audi.

She started looking for other mechanics to repair her Porsche, but the aforesaid mechanic refused to return the car to the owner. So, in 2022, Dr. Penelope Horlick sued this mechanic who, as the court later found, had dumped the car's dismantled skeleton in front of the woman's house and stolen the car's expensive engine and transmission, along with some other major components.

Horlick sued Jhally for breach of contract and restitution damages. The court sided with the academic, deciding the case in favor of this unfortunate owner of the car. According to the court's decision, the scholar was awarded £114,000 (about US$152,000) in compensation.