Store boss denies €46m gem heist was ‘inside job’

A STORE manager dismissed suggestions that a £40 million (€46m) jewellery heist was an “inside job”.

Store boss denies  €46m  gem heist  was ‘inside job’

Martin Leggatt said he would be “absolutely fascinated” to hear evidence for a lawyer’s allegation that he was involved in the raid on Graff’s in Mayfair, central London, last August.

Jurors at Woolwich Crown Court, in London, have been shown CCTV footage of Leggatt lying face-down on the floor with a gun pointed at him while a young female shop assistant was forced at gunpoint to empty displays of jewellery in the New Bond Street premises.

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