According to OPU Warwickshire, in the early hours of this morning, officers were called to the lorry parking area of Warwick Services Southbound.
It turned out that thieves had arrived in a cloned Mercedes HGV and cut the curtain side of an articulated trailer full of Gordon’s Pink Gin.
Police state that the offenders were disturbed by the driver, and when challenged, they attacked the driver – punching him to the face and knocking him to the floor.
The thieves then fled the scene – abandoning the cloned Lorry and the gin. They managed to escape just before police arrived at the services.
The driver was treated at the scene following the attack, and was thankfully OK.
The cloned Mercedes has been taken by officers and will undergo a full forensic examination to determine the identity of the thieves.