35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?

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2026-04-17

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It costs the UK economy £700m a year, and criminal gangs are operating with near impunity. Every time a lorry gets robbed, raided or hijacked, it’s Mike Dawber who investigates By Stuart McGurk. Read by Nicholas Camm. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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  • 35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese.

  • Can the UK's cargo theft crisis be stopped?

  • By Stuart McGurk.

  • Read by Nicholas Cam.

  • In August 2021, Mike Dorber, the UK's leading detective in cargo crime, got a call from officers in Bradford CID.

  • They were planning to search two warehouses that contained, in their words, an awful lot of suspicious goods.

  • This was a job that required Dorber's expert eye.

  • He drove an hour from his home in the unmarked police car that doubles as his office

  • and arrived to discover the description.

  • Barely did it justice.

  • As soon as he walked into the first warehouse, he noticed 17 pallets of golfing equipment.