More than 70,000 pints worth of Guinness stolen from depot
More than 70,000 pints worth of Guinness has been stolen by thieves who took two HGV trailers from a depot, police have said.
About 800 barrels of the stout, estimated to be worth £115,000, were taken from an industrial estate in Runcorn on Monday, a Cheshire Constabulary spokesman said.
The force is hoping for a full recovery of the stolen items and has appealed for witnesses who may have seen a lorry entering the Aston Lane area at about 7.45pm.
The lorry is said to have connected to an HGV trailer containing the Guinness and left the site at about 7.55pm in the direction of the Mersey Gateway bridge.
A second lorry arrived at the same site at 9.12pm and connected to another trailer, which also contained barrels of Guinness, before leaving at 9.30pm in the direction of Rainhill and Watkinson Way, police said.
The stolen barrels, containing around 70,400 pints of the Irish tipple, had been intended to be delivered to pubs.
Diageo, which owns Guinness, has a packaging warehouse on the Whitehouse Industrial Estate on Aston Lane.
Police say both HGVs were believed to have been driven by men.
The first driver is described as white with a short dark beard and he was wearing a beanie hat, while the second is believed to have been wearing a cap.
It is estimated the total value of the items stolen, including the trailers and the Guinness, is about £205,000.
The trailers are 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.
The force has appealed for anyone with information or any drivers who may have dashcam footage to contact them on the website, or by calling 101 and using incident reference number IML-2408641.
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