Securitas raid boss jailed for 10 years
THE mastermind of Britain’s biggest cash robbery has been jailed for 10 years in Morocco.
Ex-champion cage fighter Lee Murray, 32, learned his fate yesterday after being in a prison in Rabat for four years.
Murray, who is half Moroccan, led the robbery gang who snatched £53million in cash from the Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, in February 2006.
Shortly afterwards he fled to his father’s homeland with an estimated £33million with cage fighting pal Paul Allen. Police recovered the rest of the cash. The pair were tracked down as they went shopping in Rabat.
Kent Police and the Crown Prosecution Service secured the extradition of Allen, who was later jailed for 18 years at the Old Bailey.
But Murray proved his father was Moroccan and won the right to be tried there, guaranteeing him a lesser sentence than he would have got in a British court.