Security van driver who staged bogus £920,000 robbery by handcuffing himself to steering wheel while acting as 'inside man' is ordered to pay back just £100,000
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A security van driver who staged a bogus £920,000 robbery by handcuffing himself to the steering wheel has been ordered to pay back just £100,000. Andrew Measor, 53, claimed he had only managed to raise the alarm by dialling the number with his nose.
But he was caught bragging about faking his stress-related illness after the staged heist and boasted to friends he was 'milking it', Southwark Crown Court heard. He has since been jailed for four years and 10 months but now faces having a further 14 months added to his sentence if he fails to pay back the £100,000 in three months.
Measor left the depot in Dagenham on December 30 2021 with £920,000 in bank notes and £14,660 in coins in his van, the court heard. When the van arrived in Friary Lane, Ilford, Measor placed shopping bags full of cash in the vehicle's airlock. A white Vauxhall Combo van pulled up and two men got out to collect the bags. Measor then drove his van to Oak Lane and handcuffed himself to the steering wheel.
Two hours later, Measor called the landline number of the Loomis depot at Dagenham. Andrew Measor, 53, was jailed for almost five years after he staged a bogus £920,000 robbery by handcuffing himself to his steering wheel. Measor is pictured arriving at Southwark Crown Court in south London during his sentencing hearing after being convicted of conspiracy to commit theft and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice through a £920,000 bogus robbery.