A delivery driver who stole a massive shipment of cereal during his first week on the job has avoided prison.
Clifford Wyatt, 43, had been working for Bramhall Transport in Warrington for just six days when he entered the company’s grounds and made off with a tractor.
He drove to the nearby MAXI Haulage depot where he loaded up a large trailer containing £28,163 worth of Wheat Bisk cereal, on Sunday, October 8 last year.
He then drove nearly 30 miles to Meadow Self Storage in Failsworth, Manchester, where an associate was waiting to help him unload his haul.
When Wyatt’s bosses pressed him for an explanation after catching him on CCTV he claimed he had donated the batch to a foodbank.
He stole a total 792 containers each containing 22 boxes of Wheat Bisk, a Harvest Morn product commonly found on Aldi shelves.
After unloading the pallets, he returned the trailer and tractor to Warrington, where the missing shipment was quickly discovered.
Clifford Wyatt stole a massive…
