Yard owner pleads innocence as police find cash from £53m raid
The money was found at the back of a car repair business called ENR Cars on an industrial estate in Welling, south-east London.
Police moved in on Thursday and the yard was still sealed off yesterday.
The owner of ENR Cars, speaking from Javea in Spain, said he had sublet the yard and the first he knew of the money being found was on the news.
He said: “I don’t know a thing about it. I saw it on the news and I am now in contact with Kent police.
“I’ve owned a business 10 years. We do car bodywork.
“I think the yard where it was found is where I sublet it out so it’s part-owned by me and someone else.”
The owner, who refused to give his name, said he was waiting for police to give him more details.
Two police vans were parked in the yard yesterday and officers were continuing to search it.
They were thought to be delving inside a metal container at the back of the yard. Sniffer dogs were brought in to search the yard as a police helicopter hovered overhead.
A white car and a blue Peugeot parked in the yard were examined by police.
A friend of the ENR Cars owner, who also works on the Graves Industrial Estate in Welling and who asked not to be named, said: “The police turned up yesterday at dinner time. There were loads of them, about 40. I think some were armed.”
The raid, Britain’s biggest cash robbery, happened at the Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, in the early hours of Wednesday last week. Five people, four men and a woman, have appeared in court in connection with the cash raid.
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