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COPPER RECOVERED FROM FARM AFTER ROBBERY 

Copper worth more than £20,000, thought to have been stolen during a robbery near Dover, has been recovered from a farm near Deal.

About 26 tonnes of the metal worth £100,000 were stolen by masked robbers in an attack o­n a 54-year-old lorry driver o­n Tuesday night (3 October) at Charlwood Ltd, in the Portzone at Old Park, Whitfield near Dover.

The driver was walking towards his lorry when he was approached by two men who dragged him to the side of another truck and took his keys and mobile phone.  He was then hit in the face.

A third man then appeared carrying an iron bar who then tied the man’s hands together and threatened him with the bar. The men then used the tractor unit from the lorry driver’s vehicle to steal the trailer loaded with 26 tonnes of copper. All three men were wearing black ski masks and black clothing.

Gary Charlwood, who owns the company, has appealed to anyone who may have seen the lorry or heard the copper being unloaded, to contact police.