No-one likes to see people prosper from crime. When criminals sport designer clothes, drive around in expensive cars, have a string of luxury properties and spend money like it was going out of fashion, it is as if they are putting two fingers up to the rest of society.

Not only is this galling to the law-abiding majority, but it sends out all the wrong signals to impressionable youngsters who may be tempted to think that a life on the wrong side of the law is worth pursuing.

So while it is important for the police to catch them and for the courts to hand out appropriate sentences, it is also important that offenders are deprived of their ill-gotten gains.

The police are increasingly able to ensure that is just what happens, thanks to proceeds-of-crime legislation.

And by parking a high-performance car, which was seized in this way, in the centre of Bradford, they are clearly showing both the criminals and the public the firm line that they now take in such matters.

When caught, offenders can no longer just expect to do their time in prison and then come out and enjoy the rewards of their wrongdoing – now they will lose everything.

It’s a message that should be hard for the criminals to ignore and music to the ears of the rest of us.