Nine remanded on Dome robbery charge

Nine men charged with conspiracy to rob a £200m diamond exhibition at the Millennium Dome have been remanded in custody by an Old Bailey judge.

The men were remanded until Friday April 20, when a plea and directions hearing is due to take place.

The nine are charged with conspiring together and with others unknown between July 7 and November 8, 2000, to rob the De Beers Millennium Diamond Exhibition.

All but one, Wayne Taylor, were remanded in custody.

The accused are: Charter skipper Kevin Meredith, 34, of Aukland Drive, Brighton, East Sussex, motor trader James Wenham, 58, of Collier Street, Kent, Lee Wenham, a 32-year-old mechanic, of Ploughmans Way, Gillingham, Kent, Wayne Taylor, 35, of Tonbridge, Kent, Aldo Ciarrocchi, 31, of Balaclava Road, Bermondsey, south east London, William Cockran, 48, of Catford, south-east London, and Terence Millman, 56, Robert Adams, 57 and Raymond Betson, 39, all of no fixed address.