A Peterborough fashion retailer is offering a £10,000 reward following the theft of a shipping container full of thousands of his best-selling fleeces.
Andrew Killingsworth, chief executive and founder of Yours Clothing, in Bakewell Road, Orton Southgate, has also enlisted the help of millions of customers in a bid to find the ‘distinctive’ stolen clothing.
Mr Killingsworth has put up the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the thieves who stole the 40-feet-long container holding 3,800 Longline Fleece Zipped Hoodies from a yard in Whittlesey about a fortnight ago.
The yellow, grey and black coloured fleeces, which retail for £32.99 each, had been shipped from China to Flexistowe port before being taken by lorry to Peterborough.
Mr Killingsworth said: “It seems the container had been stored in a secure yard in Whittlesey ahead of being transported to us in Peterborough.
“But it was stolen overnight from the yard.
“We know it was taken to a layby on the A14 westbound towards Birmingham because the container’s two security trackers were found dumped nearby.”
Now Mr Killingsworth has enlisted the support of millions of customers and traders to look out for any of the fleeces being sold illegally.
In a post on the Yours Clothing’s Instagram site, he states: “To our loyal Yours Community, We urgently need your help regarding goods stolen from one of our yards.
“It you come across these products being sold anywhere else – shops, market stalls, car boot sales, online or other – please know that it is unauthorised and we ask you to report this immediately.
We are offering up to £10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction.
“We will not rest until justice is served.”
A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire police said: “We were contacted on the morning of September 25 with reports a HGV container had been stolen from a business premises in Aaron Road, Whittlesey overnight.
“The container has not been recovered and an investigation is ongoing.
“Anyone with information should contact us online using reference 35/70605/24.
Anyone without internet access should call 101.”
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