3 charged in Securitas depot heist, kidnap of manager |
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Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:40
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LONDON: The police have charged two men and a woman in the 53-million-pound armed robbery at the Securitas AB depot in Tonbridge, Kent, on 22 February. The three are to be produced in a court Thursday.
A gang had posed as police officers in seizing the depot's manager and later taking his wife and son hostages and threatening to harm them unless they helped them to get inside the depot compound.
The police identified the three as car salesmen John Fowler, 57 and Stuart Royle, 39, and self-employed Kim Shackleton, 39. Fowler and Royle are charged with conspiracy to rob the depot, with Fowler also getting a charge of kidnapping depot manager Colin Dixon, his wife Lynn and son Craig. Shackleton is charged with handling stolen goods.
It is learnt that two more men are in police custody and the detectives are questioning them.
The heist has been described as the biggest cash robbery in British history.
Kent Police said the investigations could last for years before the people responsible for the robbery are tracked down and the stolen money recovered.
News reports said the police have found a major portion of the stolen amount at a farm in Kent. Police refused to comment on these reports. The farm is reported to have be owned by Fowler and his wife Linda.
Police suspect Dixon was taken to a building on this isolated farm after his kidnap, while his wife and son too were finally brought there after their abduction from their home and a drive around the town in a parcel van.
The farm has been sealed by the police and several officers are scouring the area.
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