Three Village pubs in North Yorkshire targeted within two hours by thieves on the hunt for cooking oil
Date of alert:
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Crime Ref:
Force:
North Yorkshire Police
Reports were made to police on Friday morning about the same van which was seen in the villages of Roxby, Hinderwell and Sandsend just north of Whitby and then later in Burniston near Scarborough where the occupants were caught “red-handed” by binmen who were doing their rounds.
The first incident was around 7.10am at The Fox Inn pub at Roxby where the resident landlord heard the van and disturbed a man looking in the drums who said he was looking for waste oil.
The van was captured on CCTV at The Hart Inn at Sandsend around 20 minutes later and it was discovered that cooking oil that had recently been delivered had been taken.
Just over an hour later the van was in the car park at the Three Jolly Sailors pub at Burniston and binmen noticed two men trying to steal oil.
When they were challenged by pub staff for identification as they said they were from an organisation collecting oil, they fled and the landlady called the police.
