Police Hunt for Trailers After £205,000 Guinness Haul Vanishes
Police Hunt for Trailers After £205,000 Guinness Haul Vanishes
Coverage from left- and right-leaning outlets broadly agrees on the facts: two vehicles removed trailers loaded with Guinness from a Runcorn industrial estate, leaving police to trace a high-value haul and seek public help.
The theft turned a routine delivery route into a major investigation after more than 70,000 pints’ worth of Guinness disappeared in two trailer removals on Monday evening. Officers say the beer and the trailers together are valued at about £205,000.
The left-leaning account stresses the intended destination of the roughly 800 barrels — pubs — and frames the case around police efforts to recover every stolen item. It reports that the first lorry entered the Aston Lane area at about 7.45pm, coupled to a trailer and headed towards the Mersey Gateway bridge; a second arrived at 9.12pm and left around 9.30pm towards Rainhill and Watkinson Way.
Right-leaning coverage presents the same sequence as a particularly audacious theft, focusing on the scale of the loss and the descriptions of the vehicles and drivers. The trailers were white tri-axle curtain-sided units carrying GXO branding, with identification numbers DL736 and DL542; police believe both lorries were driven by men.
Detective Sergeant McClatchy said investigators had “wasted no time in launching enquiries” to identify those responsible for the theft of £115,000 worth of Guinness and the trailers, adding: “We will settle for nothing less than the full recovery of all the items stolen.”
Police are asking anyone who saw suspicious lorry movements in the area, or motorists with relevant dashcam footage, to contact Cheshire Police. While the reports differ in tone — one foregrounding the lost pub supply, the other the apparent boldness of the operation — neither reports arrests or recovery of the goods so far.
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