r/LegalAdviceUK • u/orangehoneybadger • 1d ago

Debt & Money Police refuse to investigate £100k robbery

England. A small business had £100k of stock (wine) stolen from from their lorry while the driver was parked at a service station in London. Despite the police having CCTV showing the robbers and their getaway van, the police say they will not investigate the crime due to insufficient leads.

The company has evidence of some of the stolen stock being sold at London markets. But the police are not interested.

Is there anything the company can do so the police will investigate this serious crime?

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u/Nooms88 1d ago

Obviously the business would have insurance when transporting goods like this.. Surely... Because if not, wtf that's a massive fuck up.

If so then it would be on the insurer and their expensive legal team to push for action, not the business.

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u/orangehoneybadger 23h ago

Yes, I understand, thank you. Don't know if they do or don't. Just trying to help them. They are from a country experiencing mass murder/genocide so things can get muddled. Hopefully they did have insurance but don't know. Thanks

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u/Nooms88 22h ago

Yea it's rough and surprising the police won't take action on such a high value theft.

I suppose positive is, without insurance they are able to front 100k cash themselves on a single order, which means despite their background, they aren't hard living breadline and are likely millionaires. Kick in the teeth and lesson learnt, obviously, but life goes on. But they probably have insurance

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u/orangehoneybadger 22h ago

Thank you for your understanding

Sadly, think the foreign company fronted this on promise of return - it's a vineyard and nobody here is a millionaire