Robbery pictures released
Updated on 01 August 2007
Police have released pictures taken during Britain's biggest-ever cash robbery.
The footage was taken from CCTV cameras while masked gunmen took £53 million from a Securitas building in Tonbridge, Kent in February 2006.
The Old Bailey heard depot manager Colin Dixon was kidnapped on his way home by two fake policemen, told his wife and young child had also been kidnapped and must do as directed if he wanted to see them again.
Mr Dixon's face is obscured in the pictures, but they show how he was driven to the depot and passed through the lobby.
The prosecution said the fake policeman wore a theatrical-type mask to disguise his features, and took out a gun wore a mask when a arrived at the depot.
He then held up 14 employees as the other robbers, dressed in black and with balaclavas over their heads, crept in.
The terrified workers were threatened with death as they were held at gunpoint and tied up on the floor.
Then in the vault, the robbers were confronted with cages full of money.
The jury, which has seen the footage, was told the robbers loaded as much as they could onto a lorry before driving off.
One of the robbers, a Securitas employee told the court, shouted "let's rock and roll" as he called for the others to leave when the lorry was full.
Car dealer John Fowler, 58, of Elderden Farm, Chart Hill Road, Staplehurst, Kent; car salesman Stuart Royle, 48, of Allen Street, Maidstone, Kent; unemployed Jetmir Bucpapa, 26, of Hadlow Road, Tonbridge; roofer Lea Rusha, 35, of Lambersart Close, Southborough, Kent; hairdresser Michelle Louise Hogg, 32, of Brinklow Crescent, Woolwich, south east London; garage owner Roger Coutts, 30, of The Green, Welling, south east London; and Emir Hysenaj, 27, a Post Office worker, of New Road, Crowborough, East Sussex, deny conspiracy to rob.
They have also pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to kidnap Securitas employee Colin Dixon, his wife and child, and conspiracy to possess firearms.
Signwriter Keith Borer, 53, of Hempstead Lane, Maidstone, Kent, denies handling stolen money.
The trial continues.
