Police responding to unlicensed music event in Weldon

Officers from Northamptonshire Police remain at the scene of an unlicensed music event near Weldon.

The force was called to woods just outside Weldon at 11.30pm last night (Saturday, June 6).

A road closure was put in place to prevent any more people accessing the site, but due to numbers already present, it was not possible to clear the area at that time without putting the public at risk.

A Force spokesperson said: “We appreciate the frustration this event has caused to local communities and are working to shut it down, identify those responsible and to prosecute them.

“Several hundred people were on the site when officers attended and with the resources available to us at that point it was not possible to safely remove people during the hours of darkness, so we took measures to close the site off to anyone else arriving.

“A police presence remains at the scene this morning and an investigation is underway to establish who has attended the event and what criminal offences have been committed.”

Anyone with information that could assist the investigation into the organisation of the event can share information with us via Report a crime | Northamptonshire Police quoting incident 26000330390.