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Armed kidnap gang in Flintshire lorry hijack
February 17, 2010 -
By BBC News
An armed and hooded gang have hijacked a lorry carrying sportswear, and threatened and kidnapped the driver after forcing him into another vehicle. 
The driver was released an hour later 40 miles (64km) away, and the lorry was found burnt-out, its load missing.
North Wales Police are hunting the robbers, who struck at about 0800 GMT on the Deeside Industrial Estate.
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PSNI 'didn't respond to lorry hijacking'
July 25,2009 -
By Belfast Telegraph
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A transport company owner has told how one of his lorries was hijacked at gunpoint and how he tried, in vain, to head off a group of masked and armed thugs ...
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Lorry driver's hijack claim after stealing £500,000 of booze
July 17,2009 -
By This is Nottingham
A BANNED lorry driver from Mansfield who stole spirits worth £500,000 and then claimed he was hijacked has been jailed for 12 months.
Russell Dyer, 41, claimed his lorry was hijacked by a man who looked like Jack Sparrow, the character played by Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean.
But Dyer, who was arrested nine months later after going on the run, eventually admitted carrying out the theft to pay off gambling debts.
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Crimewatch leads to new information in Willenhall lorry hijack
May 04,2009 -
By Birmingham Mail
POLICE are following new lines of enquiry into a lorry theft in the Black Country following a televised appeal on Crimewatch.
The BBC programme asked for help in tracking down a gang of bogus officials claiming to be from the Vehicle and Operator Service Agency.
They hijacked a lorry driver and forced him to travel more than 100 miles from Lancashire to a Willenhall street before stealing a load of copper.
Detective sergeant Dave Hanson said: “We are pleased with the information which came into the incident room and those new lines of enquiry are now being followed up by the team of detectives working on this operation.
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Crimewatch reconstructs Lancashire lorry hijack
March 09,2009 -
By BBC Crimewatch
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At around 1pm on 9 March 2009, a lorry was hijacked as it approached a roundabout on Bluebell Way in Preston, Lancashire. The lorry cabin was pulling a 40ft trailer, containing high-value spools of copper wire used for the automotive industry.
The lorry driver stopped when a blue Peugeot 406 Saloon swerved in front of his vehicle. Two men jumped out of the car. Both were wearing suits with high-visibility jackets over the top and carrying clipboards with the distinctive VOSA (Vehicle Operating Services Authority) label on them. The driver of the Peugeot remained in the car.
The driver was forced to drive more than 100 miles to St Anne's Road in Bloxwich, Walsall and told to park up. Here, another lorry unit and driver arrived and disconnected his trailer, making away with the cargo of copper wire.
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Lorry driver held after hijacker is stabbed to death
February 27,2009 -
By Martin Stote, Daily Express
A lorry driver was arrested on suspicion of murder yesterday after he stabbed to death a thief and injured two others – including a 15-year-old boy – who tried to hijack his truck.
The 41-year-old Greek had parked up overnight on an industrial estate to sleep when the gang, armed with heavy baseball bats, tried to steal his lorry.
The trucker, who injured his head, told police he owned the lorry and acted in self defence.
The victims, who were drenched in blood, called 999 for help.
An ambulance arrived at the scene, near a turn-off on the M6 for Birmingham, to find the three gone. In their panic they had driven 20 miles up the motorway to hospital where one of them, a 36-year-old man, died.
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Witnesses come forward to £1million lorry hijack
August 18 2008 -
By Laurie Stocks-Moore, Chester Chronicle
WITNESSES of a £1 million lorry hijack have come forward after police staged a reconstruction of the moment a gang subjected the driver to a terrifying ordeal.
A lorry from a transport company in Lancashire collected a trailer from Deeside and was on its route along the M53 to Birkenhead Docks. A genuine VOSA (Vehicle and Operators Services Agency) car drove in front of the lorry just as a bogus VOSA vehicle had done during the elaborate heist.
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Lorry hijack on the A34
July 17 2007 -
By the Abingdon Herald, Oxford Mail
HIJACKERS kidnapped a lorry driver before stealing more than 20 tonnes of brandy from the back of his truck. It is believed the hijacking occurred in a lay-by near Chilton at about 1am. The driver was carrying the shipment of alcohol from Poland and stopped for a nap. He woke to find three men in his cab and was forced into a vehicle with his eyes covered, where he was attacked.
Police are appealing for anyone who may have been driving northbound on the A34 between the M4 junction and Oxford after midnight on Wednesday and during the early hours of Thursday.
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Cops cripple lorry hijack gang, two suspects held
June 19 2007 -
By TheStar online News
MALACCA: A gang responsible for six hijacking cases over the past six months has been crippled with the arrest of two suspects. The two are believed to be members of the Mohan Gang, whose leader is still at large.
Malacca CID Chief Assistant Commissioner Frederick Liso Senap told a press conference yesterday the group always targeted vehicles transporting good such as paints, diapers, milk and others as these could be easily sold.
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Lorry hijack gang ties up drivers
June 02 2006 -
By Liverpool Echo
TWO Slovakian lorry drivers were found tied up by the side of the road after their wagon was hijacked. Police believe their lorry was hijacked outside Cheshire and driven to Warrington by a gang.
Detectives are still trying to piece together the exact circumstances of the hijack. Cheshire Police have appealed for members of the public to contact them with any information about the hijack."
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Knifepoint terror in lorry hijack
December 22 2005 -
By Michelle McKenna, Accrington Observer
A LORRY driver was abducted at knifepoint when three masked raiders hijacked his vehicle as he slept. The driver, a 52-year-old German man, was attacked and threatened with a knife as the offenders drove the lorry off with him inside, then he was blindfolded and dumped off the A580, where he was helped by a passer-by and taken to Bolton Hospital.
Detective Inspector Ian Critchley, who is leading the investigation, said: "The offenders have used a significant amount of force and violence to hold this victim against his will. It was a horrific ordeal for the man."
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8 men accused of lorry hijack plot
March 23 2005 -
By James Glover, Liverpool Echo
EIGHT men from Merseyside and Lancashire are accused of being behind a string of lorry hijackings across the country. It is alleged they were part of a gang that has stolen £1m of lorries and their loads in raids from Merseyside and Cumbria in the north to Kent and Hampshire on the south coast.
Officers from Hampshire police, working with detectives from Merseyside, arrested the eight men in connection with four lorry-jackings and the stealing of six lorry trailers in a three-month period last year.
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Armed raiders hijack lorry
April 12 1994 -
By The Independent
Masked men hijacked a lorry driver at gunpoint in Chippenham, Wiltshire, then stole his pounds 20,000 load of frozen meat.
Keith Blackey, 42, of Melksham, Wiltshire, was bundled into the boot of a car and driven to Bristol. The car was then doused in petrol, but the raiders released him before setting it alight.
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