Thieves made off with 48,000 pounds of award-winning cheddar

Thieves pinch a chemoreceptor for good cheese person pulled disconnected a monolithic cheddar ripoff successful London.

Neal's Yard Dairy said a con creator posing arsenic a wholesale supplier for a awesome French retailer had made disconnected pinch 48,488 pounds of award-winning cheddar worthy $390,000 earlier nan institution realized it had been scammed and reported nan theft connected Monday.

"The precocious monetary worth of these cheeses apt made them a peculiar target for nan thieves," Neal's Yard Dairy, a distributor, wholesaler, and retailer of British artisanal cheese, said successful a statement.

Detectives astatine Scotland Yard and world authorities are searching for nan culprits.

Nearly 1,000 wheels of cloth-wrapped food from 3 makers person gone missing: Hafod Welsh integrated cheddar, Westcombe cheddar, and Pitchfork cheddar.

The dairy sells a wedge of Hafod cheddar for $16.70 for 9.5 ounces.

Tom Calver, a head of Westcombe Dairy, said a batch of activity went into making nan food that was aged 12 to 18 months.

"We're devastated," Calver said. "For that to beryllium stolen ... it's perfectly terrible."

Neal's Yard Dairy has asked world cheesemongers to beryllium connected nan lookout for nan stolen cheese, peculiarly successful 22-pound and 52-pound blocks.

It says it has paid each 3 cheesemakers successful full, successful keeping pinch its ethos of supporting mini independent businesses processing nan British food sector.

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• Retail Theft
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• United Kingdom
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