Police investigate Out of Town Leisure

A POLICE investigation is underway after food retail chain Out of Town Leisure Group was put in administration.

In a statement, South Yorkshire Police confirmed it had received allegations of fraud on Wednesday. Yorkshire-based Out of Town Leisure Group is understood to have been placed in administration on Wednesday afternoon.

Out of Town Leisure Group specialises in retail catering outlets in major shopping centres including eight stores at the Meadowhall centre in Sheffield.

The Out of Town Group was launched in 1998 with outlets at the Trafford Centre, in Manchester, and the McArthur Glen Designer Outlet Village.

It went into administration in 2007 and was bought by Lawrence Wosskow and renamed Out of Town Leisure Group Ltd.

A police spokeswoman said: “South Yorkshire Police received allegations of fraud from a Sheffield company on Wednesday 14 July. Police are looking into these allegations.”

Nobody was available from the company to comment.