Two Dorset men and one from Hampshire will appear in court next month following a series of raids across the south, including the theft of £100,000 of a Locks Heath wine merchant’s stock.
Del Taylor in her shop in Locks Heath after last year’s raid on her storage unit
Burglars last year stole expensive wines from a storage unit at Bury Farm Industrial Estate in Curbridge – between Park Gate and Botley – where Del Taylor stored alcohol to sell at her shop Alexander Hadleigh in the Locks Heath Shopping Village.
As reported in The Gazette, she said she felt a huge violation when thieves forced their way into the unit during the night of June 16 and 17 last year and stole countless crates of alcohol – some of which was irreplaceable.
It is understood some of the rare wines stolen were recovered by detectives and have been returned to Ms Taylor.
Daniel Robert Howard, Craig Read and Thomas Stacey-Rossiter have been charged with conspiracy to commit burglary between May 1, 2012 and September 10, 2012 at various locations in Hampshire and Dorset.
Howard, 26, of Medway Road in Ferndown; Read, 23, of Petwyn Close in Ferndown; and Stacey-Rossiter, 20, of Gravel Lane, Ringwood will appear at Portsmouth Crown Court on July 1 for a preliminary hearing.
At the preliminary hearing a date for the trial could be set – which police said would be most likely to take place in the Autumn.