Kent police charge three over raid
Kent police charge three over raid
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Wednesday, 01, Mar 2006 11:25
Kent police have charged two men and one woman over the £53 million raid on a Kent Securitas depot last Tuesday.
In the first charges to be laid over Britain's biggest robbery, 57-year-old John Fowler was charged with conspiracy to rob Securitas and three charges over the kidnapping of centre manager Colin Dixon, his wife Lynn and nine-year-old son Craig.
Stuart Royle, 47, has been charged with conspiracy to rob, while Kim Shackelton, 39, has also been charged over the raid.
Two men were arrested on Sunday and two other men and a woman were detained on Monday, while seven other people are currently on police bail having also been arrested as part of the investigation into the robbery at a Securitas depot in Tonbridge.
Magistrates in Maidstone and Canterbury had granted detectives an extra 24 hours in which to detain the four men and one woman arrested. There has been no word on whether the other two men will be charged.
Kent police have also put roadblocks in place in key areas across the county and a white Renault lorry, thought to have been used to transport the robbers' haul, is undergoing forensic examination after being found yesterday.
The vehicle is believed to be the one captured on CCTV at the depot and also the one used to dump cages that had contained the cash in fields on the top of Detling Hill, near Thurnham.
Searches at a farm in Staplehurst, ten miles south of Maidstone, are also continuing today, as police step up the search for the perpetrators of Britain's biggest ever bank heist.
Depot manager Mr Dixon, his wife Lynn and the couple's son Craig, who recently turned nine, were abducted as part of the robbery and told officers they remembered being taken to an unknown farm during their ordeal.
A £2 million reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of the robbers.