Thieves stole a trailer full of Kinder Beuno bars in Lancashire (Picture: AFP or licensors)
The hunt is on for sweet-toothed thieves who made off with £134,000 worth of Kinder Beuno chocolate.
Police say the suspects stole a trailer containing tens of thousands of the popular hazelnut chocolate bars from Gillibrands Industrial Estate in Skelmersdale, Lancashire.
They had arrived with a lorry at 3am on March 17 this year, attached the trailer to the back of it, then drove to Simonswood in Merseyside.
Police believe the cargo was then loaded onto a another vehicle.
Officers eventually found the missing empty trailer in nearby Rainford.
PC Holly Bennett, from Lancashire Police, said: ‘This is a significant commercial theft, and I would appeal to anyone who saw anything suspicious either in the area around the industrial estate or the area where the load has been transferred or the trailer has been abandoned to get in touch.’
In July last year a man was jailed for 18 months after stealing 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs.
The chocolate was worth £134,000 (Picture: Shutterstock/Rafastockbr)
Joby Pool, 32, used a metal grinder to break into an industrial unit in Telford, Shropshire, on February 11.
Police had scrambled to the scene, but not before he drove off with chocolate goods worth more than £31,000.
Pool had used a stolen tractor unit to tow away a trailer-load of Creme Eggs from an industrial unit belonging to SW Group Logistics in Stafford Park, Telford.
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