MoD laptop stolen from Liverpool's Adelphi hotel

Jul 22 2008

Liverpool waterfront

A Ministry of Defence (MoD) laptop containing “sensitive information” which was stolen while an official checked out of a Liverpool hotel has been recovered, police said today.

On Sunday, an MoD spokesman said the theft from the Britannia Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool city centre on Thursday brought the total of laptops stolen to 659 during the past four years.

Today a spokesman for Merseyside Police said no one had been arrested in connection with the theft of the laptop, which was found by officers yesterday.

The spokesman could not confirm how or where the laptop was found.

He said: “Merseyside Police can confirm that the MoD laptop that was taken from the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, on Thursday July 17, was successfully recovered yesterday. The recovery of the laptop was the end result of a joint operation between the Ministry of Defence and Merseyside Police that has been running since the laptop was taken last week.”

No other details were released.

A spokeswoman for the MoD said today: “The information on the laptop was encrypted and we will be investigating.”