Three men who stalked security vans in a stolen car waiting for the perfect moment to grab cash boxes did not plan to use force, a jury has ruled.
Girry Richardson, 20, Charlie Critchley, 19, and Nicholas George Carter, 20, were rammed off the road by armed police in New Malden on August 21, while planning a raid. They were cleared of conspiracy to rob by an Old Bailey jury this week. They will now be sentenced on their earlier guilty pleas to conspiracy to steal.
On the day, police officers were tipped off by an off duty police officer who saw two of the men loitering outside the William Hill bookies in High Street by Grafton Road, New Malden.The men were seen intently staring at a cash in transit van and were wearing hoodies and gloves in the summer.
The trio began their journey in Surbiton and drove through Cheam, Morden and New Malden following vehicles belonging to security companies G4S or Loomis for more than five hours. Officers conducted a “hard stop” by ramming into their stolen black Nissan Juke in Burlington Road, New Malden On the afternoon of August 21. In the drama a packed 131 bus full of passengers and a silver BMW car was hit.
Richardson, of the Hollands, Worcester Park, Critchley, of St George’s Gardens, Surbiton, and Carter, from Chingford, will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on March 8.
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