Police hunt 200,000 Creme Eggs stolen in Telford

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The theft of 200,000 Cadbury's Creme Eggs from an industrial estate nearly threw Easter into doubt, according to police.

The West Mercia force said they had been hunting individuals "presumably purporting to be the Easter bunny".

The spring-time, choc treats vanished - along with their gooey fondant centres - from a unit in Telford on Saturday.

But the eggs were found when police stopped a vehicle on the M42 motorway, the force said.

It added officers had "saved Easter for Creme Egg fans" in the recovery of confectionery valued at about £40,000.

Police said other chocolate varieties were taken from the site in Stafford Park but the force appeared to flake on those details.

A 32-year-old man of no fixed abode has been charged with criminal damage and two counts of theft.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-64627829

[Crimson Dynamo]

I hope the judge gives him 5 years in a henitentiary

[bots]

i think he will be eggsonerated

[Jordan.]

Hideous chocolate

[Beso]

Easier to smelt than gold. Wise move by these crafty criminals. They will be caramel bars before you know it.

[Kate!]

It's no yolk

[Beso]

Before twixlight infact.

[Mystic Mock]

This was an eggciting read.

[UserSince2005]

Thats more cream than a Friday night at mine

[Cherie]

That’s eggstradinary

[user104658]

I wonder if he planned to sell them, or if he was going to eat them all himself? :think:

[Livia]

This isn't far from Kazanne.

She's definitely in the frame.....

[Kazanne]

This isn't far from Kazanne.

She's definitely in the frame.....

:joker::joker: Its quite close Livia, I'm looking to sell some knock off Creme eggs as we speak, I can do you a deal,:laugh:but dont tell anyone else otherwise they will all want some.:hee:

[Swan]

They've found and stopped the culprit

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[Livia]

:joker::joker: Its quite close Livia, I'm looking to sell some knock off Creme eggs as we speak, I can do you a deal,:laugh:but dont tell anyone else otherwise they will all want some.:hee:

I'll take all you have!

[Swan]

Slim has been quiet recently :think:

[Kazanne]

I'll take all you have!

:joker:I used to love Creme eggs.

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A man who stole 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs, causing a police panic about Easter, has been convicted in court.

Joby Pool was surrounded by a mountain of the foil-wrapped chocolate when police caught up with him at the weekend.

Recognising he was foiled too, he surrendered to officers with his hands up, prosecutors said.

He is due to be sentenced in Crown Court next month.

Pool, 32, used a stolen lorry with false plates to snatch a trailer containing the eggs from an industrial unit in Telford on Saturday, Kidderminster Magistrates' Court heard.

[user104658]

Did he know he was stealing cream Eggs? I like to think he was just chancing it, stealing any trailer that was loaded and ready to go, hoping it would contain a valuable haul... just because I like to imagine someone getting to a quiet area, tentatively opening up the back and finding hundreds of thousands of cream eggs :joker:

[Zizu]

Slight tangent but do they make a big Cadbury’s Crème Egg ??

I kinda promised one our granddaughters that I’d get her one for the weekend as she’s been poorly ..

I’m sure I saw one a boxed one recently in a supermarket ..


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[Zizu]

Slight tangent but do they make a big Cadbury’s Crème Egg ??

I kinda promised one our granddaughters that I’d get her one for the weekend as she’s been poorly ..

I’m sure I saw one a boxed one recently in a supermarket ..


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Oooops

Maybe I saw these ..https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230215/7f9524f08e1e5f894f5afe4e7f9f5f3a.jpg


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