Sick juror delays Securitas trial

The robbery took place at a Securitas depot in Kent in 2006

Jurors in the Old Bailey trial of two men accused of taking part in the £53m Securitas depot robbery are not sitting as one of them is sick.

They retired to consider their verdicts on Thursday afternoon and are due to resume deliberations on Monday.

Paul Allen, 30, of Chatham, Kent, and Michael Demetris, 32, of Bromley, south London, both deny conspiracy to rob, kidnap and possess firearms.

The robbery in Tonbridge in February 2006 was Britain's biggest cash raid.

Jurors were told Mr Allen and fellow cage-fighter Lee Murray, who is in jail in Morocco, were the raid's masterminds.

The court heard that the two of them fled to Morocco.

Mr Allen has said he had nothing to do with the raid and accused Mr Murray of using him in the plot.

It has been alleged Mr Demetris, a hairdresser, asked his employee Michelle Hogg to provide prosthetic disguises, similar to those used in theatre and cinema production, for the men involved in the robbery.

Five people were jailed earlier this year for their parts in the raid.