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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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
Published: Dec, 17 2024 13:21

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.

 [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]
Image Credit: Mail Online [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]

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.

 [CCTV footage showed three masked men loading laundry bags filled with bank notes into a white Vauxhall Combo van]
Image Credit: Mail Online [CCTV footage showed three masked men loading laundry bags filled with bank notes into a white Vauxhall Combo van]

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.

 [Cantaris met with Measor several times before the raid, and CCTV and phone evidence linked the others to them, the court heard (pictured is CCTV footage of the heist)]
Image Credit: Mail Online [Cantaris met with Measor several times before the raid, and CCTV and phone evidence linked the others to them, the court heard (pictured is CCTV footage of the heist)]

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.

 [Measor (left) and Stefanos Cantaris (right), who was 'in charge and pulling the strings', were both acquitted by the jury of conspiracy to conceal or transfer criminal property]
Image Credit: Mail Online [Measor (left) and Stefanos Cantaris (right), who was 'in charge and pulling the strings', were both acquitted by the jury of conspiracy to conceal or transfer criminal property]

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