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Sussex cheese factory raid goes wrong

2:32pm Wednesday 17th March 2010 in


An attempted raid of a former cheese factory was foiled when two burglars were disturbed by police.

The pair fled when spotted by officers at the factory at Twineham Grange Farm, leaving their ford Transit pick up truck behind.

Police were called to the farm in Bob Lane, Twineham, at 10pm on Monday evening. As they arrived, two men ran from the property.

Officers discovered the men had broken into the building and driven the Transit inside before starting to load equipment onto it.

The men are described as 5ft 8in to 5ft 10in tall, both of stocky build and wearing dark trousers and dark grey fleece style tops. One was wearing a chequered shirt, possibly blue.

Police are appealing for anyone who saw the white-cabbed truck, registration L961 FKM, in the area before 10pm on Monday to contact 0845 60 70 999 quoting serial 1843 of 15/03.

Comments(21)

Spanners says...
3:01pm Wed 17 Mar 10

As robbers they are not very good at their Kraft and clearly don't make the grate. Besides they gouda be anywhere by now...

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Juan Albion says...
3:20pm Wed 17 Mar 10

I would imagine the thieves were VERY disturbed if they caught the police in the act.

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Whitedot says...
4:16pm Wed 17 Mar 10

How dairy they think they could get a whey with this.

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Tammy Flugh says...
4:40pm Wed 17 Mar 10

Cracking poor robbery, Gromit.

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John Steed says...
4:49pm Wed 17 Mar 10

thanks to the timely wheying in by the boys in blue it stilton goes to show that you cant "do as you likey" in sussex.

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Lil says...
5:02pm Wed 17 Mar 10

I bet they're cheesed off they didn't pull the heist off. E'dam gone caught us they were thinking I bet. Still brie-lliant work by the boys in blue cheese, they've been on a roule what with the Hove kidnap arrests today. those robbers will have the guilt churning around in their mind for sure!

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Kit Napier says...
5:36pm Wed 17 Mar 10

Please enough of the puns, they are beginning to grate

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cheezburger says...
6:07pm Wed 17 Mar 10

Nice to see such a story on a Wensleydale, err i mean Wednesday

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bibble says...
6:21pm Wed 17 Mar 10

Of course, the ANPR system will not work in this case. Because it is a straightforward alleged crime. But it can be used for false anti-terrorist purposes to stop peace activists.

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cheezburger says...
6:25pm Wed 17 Mar 10

bibble wrote:
Of course, the ANPR system will not work in this case. Because it is a straightforward alleged crime. But it can be used for false anti-terrorist purposes to stop peace activists.
Change the record.

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bibble says...
6:26pm Wed 17 Mar 10

cheezburger wrote:
bibble wrote: Of course, the ANPR system will not work in this case. Because it is a straightforward alleged crime. But it can be used for false anti-terrorist purposes to stop peace activists.
Change the record.
I will change the record when the police change theirs.

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cheezburger says...
6:57pm Wed 17 Mar 10

I bet you are a real hoot at parties.

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thebuffalo says...
7:10pm Wed 17 Mar 10

bibble wrote:
Of course, the ANPR system will not work in this case. Because it is a straightforward alleged crime. But it can be used for false anti-terrorist purposes to stop peace activists.
Or for identifying and arresting kidnapping suspects, if today's other story is to be believed. Or did you handily ignore that as it doesn't fit your agenda?

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Christophe Hawtree says...
8:20pm Wed 17 Mar 10

I am astonished that the pun-hungry Argus headline writers did not reach for the phrase about a "holed up".

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On_the_Level says...
8:58pm Wed 17 Mar 10

Well done to the boys in blue, what you might call a Feta compli

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icansee says...
9:27pm Wed 17 Mar 10

cops get called
cops drive there
robbers gone
cops seize vehicle and record evidence
cops recycle vehicle
wicked

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Whitedot says...
6:53am Thu 18 Mar 10

On_the_Level wrote:
Well done to the boys in blue, what you might call a Feta compli
Nice! we have a winner

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kumquat says...
9:36am Thu 18 Mar 10

You have to pay fromage to the police here i think...

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albionite says...
9:43am Thu 18 Mar 10

Stop, I camembert it!
Seriously, the thieves must be crackers...

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VoodooGangbanger says...
9:47am Thu 18 Mar 10

Jesus the police are stupid, its OBVIOUSLY a scrap theft, hit up the scrap merchants for leads oh no wait im sorry that would be real policing instead of asking joe public, have you seen this van.

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Whitedot says...
9:54am Thu 18 Mar 10

VoodooGangbanger wrote:
Jesus the police are stupid, its OBVIOUSLY a scrap theft, hit up the scrap merchants for leads oh no wait im sorry that would be real policing instead of asking joe public, have you seen this van.
That ones rubbish

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