Eight on trial for €78m heist from Bank of England

A GANG of robbers staged a terrifying armed kidnap plot to pull off a £53 million (€78.7m) heist at a Bank of England cash store, the Old Bailey court heard yesterday.

Using theatrical disguises they carried out Britain’s biggest cash robbery at the Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

The depot manager Colin Dixon was held hostage at gunpoint by men posing as police — as were his wife and young child.