Detectives hunting alleged fraudsters who are believed to have stolen 22 tonnes of the world’s best cheddar from a luxury cheese seller have arrested a “person of interest”.
Sophisticated con artists allegedly spent four months convincing Neal’s Yard Dairy, the London wholesaler and retailer of artisan cheeses, that they were a real French cheese-buyer for a major distributor and supermarket, before making off with £300,000 worth of cloth-bound raw milk cheddar this month.
