The driver, who was found guilty, claimed he used his nose to dial his phone to call for help
A Watford man has been acquitted over a plot to steal almost £1 million in a faked armed heist.
Paul McSweeney, 55, from Watford, had denied charges of conspiracy to commit theft, conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. He was acquitted of all three charges along with Terrance Burrell, 57, from Theydon Bois, Mark Kendall, 56, from Loughton, Saimir Neziri, 38, from Barnet, and Christopher Shipp, 35, from Bishop’s Stortford.Cash-in-transit driver Andrew Measor, 51, was found guilty of being an “inside man” in the plot.
He claimed he used his nose to dial his phone to call for help from the Loomis depot in Dagenham, east London, after he was “raided” on December 30, 2021.The driver, who had worked for the firm for around three years, said £920,000 in banknotes had been stolen after a man armed with a gun approached him as he left his home and said: “I know everything that goes on. Just do as I say and everything will be OK.
But Southwark Crown Court heard Measor handcuffed himself to the steering wheel, then waited two hours before raising the alarm over the faked robbery in Ilford, east London, with Stefanos Cantaris, 39.
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