The superstar chef Jamie Oliver has inspired cheese lovers to assist police catch scammers who defrauded a London dairy out of greater than £300,000 price of English and Welsh cheddar.
Neal’s Yard Dairy, a distributor and retailer of British artisan cheese, delivered 22 tonnes of award-winning clothbound cheddar to the alleged fraudster posing as a wholesale distributor for a big French retailer earlier than realising it had been duped.
Oliver, 49, described the incident involving greater than 950 wheels of cheddar as a “brazen heist of surprising proportions”.
He informed followers on Instagram to be alert in the event that they heard something about “lorryloads of very posh cheese” being supplied “for reasonable”, including that the cheddar would have initially been price about £300,000.
The stolen cheeses had been Hafod Welsh natural cheddar, Westcombe cheddar, and Pitchfork cheddar, which have gained a lot of awards and are amongst “essentially the most sought-after artisan cheeses within the UK”, Neal’s Yard Dairy has mentioned.
It mentioned it had nonetheless paid Hafod, Westcombe and Pitchfork, the small-scale producers of the stolen merchandise, so they might not need to bear the associated fee.
The three cheeses promote for between £7.15 and £12.90 for a small piece weighing 250-300g.
Neal’s Yard Dairy added it was working with the Metropolitan police to determine the perpetrators.
The dairy is asking on cheesemongers world wide to contact them if they think they’ve been bought the stolen cheese, significantly clothbound cheddars in a 10kg or 24kg format with the tags indifferent.
On Friday, the Met mentioned in a press release it was investigating a “report of the theft of a giant amount of cheese” from a London outlet.
“Inquiries are ongoing into the circumstances,” it mentioned, including that no arrests had been made to date because the theft was reported on Monday.
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