Four guilty of £200m Millennium Dome robbery plot

Four men have been found guilty of plotting to rob the Millennium Dome of £200 million worth of diamonds.

A fifth man has been cleared of the robbery charge but found guilty of conspiracy to steal the diamonds by a jury at the Old Bailey.

The jury of seven women and five men reached majority verdicts against the defendants after deliberating for nearly seven court days.

They found Aldo Ciarrocchi, 32, of Balaclava Road, Bermondsey, south east London; Raymond Betson, 40, of Chatham, Kent; William Cockram, 49, from Catford, south east London; and Robert Adams, 57, of no fixed address, guilty of conspiracy to rob.

A fifth man, Kevin Meredith, 34, of Aucklands Drive, Brighton, was cleared of conspiracy to rob but convicted of conspiracy to steal.