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Police believe two lorries driven into facility near Liverpool with estimated value of items taken to be roughly €238,000
Police believe two lorries driven into facility near Liverpool with estimated value of items taken to be roughly €238,000 Cheshire police are hoping for a full recovery of the stolen Guinness barrels and have appealed for witnesses.
Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times, on Monday, each attached to a waiting trailer holding a combined total of about 800 barrels before being driven away. Cheshire police are hoping for a full recovery of the stolen barrels and have appealed for witnesses who may have seen a lorry entering the Aston Lane area at about 7.45pm.
The first lorry was said to have connected to the HGV trailer before leaving the depot at about 7.55pm in the direction of the Mersey Gateway bridge. The second lorry arrived at the same site at 9.12pm and connected to another trailer before leaving at 9.30pm in the direction of Rainhill and Watkinson Way, police said.
Det sgt McClatchy said: “It is famously said that ‘Guinness is good for you’, but that is only the case when it has been bought and paid for.
“It is with this in mind that we have wasted no time in launching inquires to identify those responsible for the theft of £115,000 worth of Guinness and the two trailers that housed the barrels. We will settle for nothing less than the full recovery of all the items stolen.
“As part of our investigation into fully establishing what has occurred, we are now appealing to anyone who has any information in relation to the theft to please come forward and speak to officers. “We would also ask any motorists who were driving in the area at the time of either of the incidents to please review any dashcam footage to see if you have captured anything that could aid our investigation. ”Police believe both HGVs were driven by men.
The first driver was described as white with a short dark beard and he was wearing a beanie hat. The second was believed to have been wearing a cap. The trailers were described as white tri-axle curtain side trailers with branding for logistics company GXO on curtains and rear doors. The trucks have the unique ID numbers DL736 and DL542 on the top left corner of their rear doors.
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