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22nd November 2001
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• by Melanie Hammond Police are warning drivers to be extra vigilant in the run-up to Christmas after two truck loads of wine were stolen including one terrifying incident where the driver was hijacked at gunpoint.

In the most recent incident hijackers broke into a truck parked on the A3 between London's Blackwell and Rotherhithe tunnels. The Turkish driver, who was delivering 18,000 bottles of Sicilian wine to the UK, was tied up and bundled into the sleeping compartment of the cab while the armed gang drove the truck to an unknown location.

The vehicle—a white Scania curtainsider—was later abandoned, without the load, at Leyton Industrial Estate in east London.

The armed gang are thought to have been driving a white van. The driver is described as Asian and the gunman as black, of average height and build, with a dark goatee beard. Another man, also black and of average build, was holding what is thought to have been a dagger.

In the second incident, police are hunting raiders who stole 250,000 worth of Spanish wine from a Felixstowe Port haulage depot.

The thieves broke into the haulage yard and took the red and yellow Volvo tractor as well as its trailer and container which was loaded with 12,000 bottles.

Police involved in the investigation are warning drivers that "careless talk costs loads" and say hauliers should upgrade security in the run-up to Christmas and avoid talking, even vaguely, about what loads they are moving.

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Locations: London

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