OVER 800 BARRELS of Guinness, with an estimated value of \u00a3115,000 (\u20ac134,000), were stolen from two lorries in a depot in England earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Detective Sergeant McClatchy, from Cheshire police, remarked: \u201cIt is famously said that \u2018Guinness is good for you\u2019, but that is only the case when it has been bought and paid for.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Guinness was stolen by two men who connected lorries to HGV trailers containing the famous stout, before driving off.<\/p>\n
At around 7.45pm on Monday 31 August, a lorry entered an industrial estate in the town of Runcorn, which in Cheshire and is part of the Liverpool City region.<\/p>\n
The lorry connected to a HGV trailer containing barrels of Guinness before leaving the site at 7.55pm and driving in the direction of the Mersey Gateway.<\/p>\n
Then at 9.12pm, a second lorry arrived at the same site in a different lorry and connected to another trailer containing barrels of Guinness.<\/p>\n
The lorry left the site at around 9.30pm.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s estimated that the total value of the items stolen \u2013 the Guinness, as well as the trailers \u2013 is around \u00a3205,000 (\u20ac238,000).<\/p>\n
The trailers are described as white Tri-Axle Curtain side trailers with GXO company branding on curtains and rear doors.<\/p>\n
The trailers also have unique ID numbers on their rear doors in the top left corner. The ID numbers of stolen trucks are DL736 or DL542.<\/p>\n
Both HGVs were believed to have been driven by men.<\/p>\n
The first man is described as white with a short dark beard and wearing a beanie hat, and police said the second man is \u201cbelieved to have been wearing a cap\u201d.<\/p>\n
Officers are appealing to anyone with any information or dashcam and video footage taken from around the time of the incident to make contact.<\/p>\n
Sergeant McClatchy said \u201cwe have wasted no time in launching enquiries to identify those responsible for the theft of \u00a3115,000 (\u20ac134,000) Guinness and the two trailers that housed the barrels\u201d.<\/p>\n
McClatchy added: \u201cWe will settle for nothing less than the full recovery of all the items stolen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OVER 800 BARRELS of Guinness, with an estimated value of \u00a3115,000 (\u20ac134,000), were stolen from two lorries in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,73148,604,260580,260581,61,60,260582,260583,260584],"class_list":["post-614340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cheshire","tag-guinness","tag-guinness-is-good-for-you","tag-guinness-theft","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liverpool-city-region","tag-runcorn","tag-splitting-with-the-g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}