Over 800 barrels of Guinness worth around €135k stolen from English depot
Over 800 barrels of Guinness worth approximately €135,000 were stolen from a depot in Runcorn, England. Police are currently searching for the suspects and the two stolen trailers used in the heist.
Why it matters
This high-value theft highlights vulnerabilities in industrial supply chain security and logistics.
OVER 800 BARRELS of Guinness, with an estimated value of £115,000 (€134,000), were stolen from two lorries in a depot in England earlier this week.
Detective Sergeant McClatchy, from Cheshire police, remarked: “It is famously said that ‘Guinness is good for you’, but that is only the case when it has been bought and paid for.”
The Guinness was stolen by two men who connected lorries to HGV trailers containing the famous stout, before driving off.
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.
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.
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