How Police Foiled Attempted Robbery
LONDON. Thu. (10 a.m.).—How members of the Scotland Yard Flying Squad posed as warehouse officials and foiled an attempt to rob a bonded warehouse at a London airport on the night of July 27 was told .in couri.
Nine handcuffed men appeared on charges of stealing keys belonging to the warehouse staff.
The prosecutor said that 15 policemen, acting cn advance information, stationed themselves round the warehouse at midnight.
Two posed as loaders and another as a security officer, with the keys to the safe in his pocket.
They lay down and appeared drugged as a lorry pulled up outside.
Masked men tied up the three police officers and struck the man with the keys on the back of the head.
POLICE OFFICERS APPEAR
As the masked men attempted to open the safe, police officers appeared from hiding. The men used iron bars, coshes, wire-cutters and bludgeons in the ensuing fight. The warehouse held diamonds worth £ 13,900, and £224,580 worth of other merchandise.
A plane carrying £250,000 of gold bullion was expected on the day of the robbery, but was delayed. The prosecutor said it was an “extremely well-organised attempt at a robbery of great magnitude.” A number of police officers and accused men were injured in the fight. One man hobbled into dock with a broken ankle.
The hearing was adjourned until August 17. and the accused remained in custody.
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Northern Advocate, 13 August 1948, Page 5
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