Car stolen from Chester Zoo car park

At around 1.30pm on Tuesday, April 16 a grey Ford Transit Torneo arrived at the zoo’s car park.

An unknown person exited the vehicle and stole a grey Range Rover which was parked at the zoo. Both the Transit Torneo and the Range Rover then left the car park in convoy.

at 2.15pm the same Transit entered the Court car park in Chester city centre.

An unknown person exited the Transit and stole a black Nissan Navara.

All three vehicles then left the area minutes apart, travelling out of the city over the Grosvenor bridge.

Enquiries in relation to the thefts are ongoing and officers are keen to hear from anyone with any information or video footage which may aid the investigation.

Police Constable James Wright, of Chester Proactive Policing Team, said: “It is clear that this was a carefully coordinated theft of two vehicles and we’re committed to doing all we can to identify those responsible.

“As part of our investigation we keen to hear from anyone who was in the car parks at the time of the offences and believes they may have seen anything suspicious.

“The same goes for anyone with any video or dashcam footage which may aid the investigation.”

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Cheshire police on 101 or visit www.cheshire.police.uk/tell-us quoting 24000346311