Theft prevented in MCR
Type of Incident
Theft
Police Report Filed
Yes
Date of Incident
October 12, 2026
Hi all,
I just wanted to let everyone know that we have managed to stop three (26ES) machines from being delivered to:
1 Old School Drive
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M9 8DR
A gentleman called our office this morning claiming to be a Craig Newsome who works for Titan Construction Limited. He called on a withheld number and claimed he had changed his number. This raised a bit of suspicion at our end.
We checked with our internal sales rep who confirmed with the real Craig Newsome that he hadn’t placed an order and he was informed that another successful attempt had been made on his account via another powered access provider.
Please see the number of the fake person 07469 526199.
Kind regards
Kelly Burgess
Head of Hire
Horizon Platforms
Financial Impact
None we managed to save the day by double checking
Type of Equipment stolen
3 x 26ft scissor lifts (attempted theft)
Comments
This was an attempted theft .. thankfully it was stopped it was not the gang's first and will not be the last
