09.10.2006

£5,000 reward

Height for Hire, the Dublin based sales and rental company is offering a £5,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of two Manitou telehandlers.

The two units are both 17 metre, MT1740, are serial numbers: 206 851 and 213 558. In addition the two units carried fleet identification numbers T266 and T267.
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Two units similar to this one were stolen

Both lifts had an identical specification: 4x4, Perkins engine, four tonnes lift capacity. and outriggers.
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The machines were delivered to a ‘customer’ at Liam Regan’s pub, Cara Castle/Charlestown Co. Mayo Ireland. At 08.30am on the 21st of September. They remained outside the pub until approx 12.30pm when a local woman reported seeing them being lifted onto a trailer.
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Two similar units to this were stolen

The trailer was last seen heading Northwards on the Sligo-Donegal road.

Height for Hire believe that they were heading across the border to Northern Ireland and may have been shipped to the mainland UK by now.

The company realised that handlers had gone, when they failed to reach the customer last Wednesday (Oct 4th) and made enquiries.

It is clear that the rental was set up specifically in order to steal the machines. The company name was given as ‘O’Shea Contracts’ with the contact name of ‘Ollie O’Shea’.

The delivery driver has described O’Shea as being in his fifties, fair to brown hair, freckles, protruding teeth and spoke with a northern (Irish) accent.

The company was told that the machines were to be used for work on the Charlestown bypass. However no one on site had ever heard of O’Shea contracts or Ollie O’Shea.

A copy of his signature is available on request from Height for Hire.

For any information please contact:
Mary Beakey
+353 (0) 1 835 2835
Mobile +353 (0)86 2497311
email: [email protected]