Originally Posted by Anthony Butcher

The taxi driver's friend could have flown out to Morroco from London with the laptop, perhaps trying to return her laptop to her, and uploaded a random video to Youtube, without presumably knowing who John West is, and then flown back to London to return the laptop a few days later. That's what I would do if I found a laptop.

Luckily he realised the fuss he had created and opted to take down the video to help out UKIP.

It is of course a strange name for the Moroccan friend of a taxi driver...alluringlyteutoinic... but perhaps he thought it was worth opening up a new Youtube account to hide his identity.