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you have managed to confuse again!!!

are you trying to say that the name on the cris and the name of the person your buying from arent the same? if so walk away!!!!! in fact run!

we have been at home and for 9 months looked at the house over the road using their new van, til one night the police arrived complete with wrecker and removed the van from the owners who had bought it in good faith off someone, it turned out the van had been stolen, in my book no cris documents that match up then i dont hand over any money its as simple as that. 

well I'll leave the concerns expressed above and return to your original question - cash or cheque. With cheque your risk is that he has the money & van for a while. I see this as dangerous. With cash (presumably a large amount) you  could possibly be robbed. could even be a set up job. From his point of view I would also be concerned about forgeries. There is a lot out there.

You could use a bank draft. Buy it over the counter. hand it to him and take the van.

As Gordon is now backing the banks he can have no concern over the bank draft (unless forged of course)

If he is a policeman can he show you his warrant card?