Jailed, gang who stole £7m in heist at Heathrow

A GANG who carried out one of Britain’s biggest heists were jailed for 23 years yesterday after the mastermind was caught bragging about it.

Security guards Mohammad Siddique, 32, and Ranjeev Singh, 40, staged a £7million robbery of their van at Heathrow Airport. The guards for cash-handling firm Loomis picked up the money from Credit Suisse at a cargo depot.

But they were caught after mastermind Rafaqat Hussain, 41, boasted to his brother: ‘I f****** robbed seven million.’

The confession was recorded via a bug placed in his car by police after they became suspicious about the raid and arrested Singh and Siddique.

Hussain tried to use the cash to buy a house from an 88-yearold woman, after having it burgled by Gary Carrod, 34, in a bid to lower the price.

On March 14, after the pair drove out of the depot, Siddique stopped the vehicle to let Singh go to the toilet. Singh claimed he returned to find Siddique had driven off with the cash, but he waited 20 minutes before raising the alarm.

The money has never been found, but officers traced £900,000 to the Pakistani bank account of Hussain’s wife.

Siddique was found after the raid in a ditch with his hands and feet tied. He claimed he had been forced to carry out the heist by a mystery man.

Yesterday at Kingston Crown Court Hussain, from Slough, was sentenced to ten years and three months for conspiracy to steal and money laundering.

Siddique and Singh, also from Slough, were handed six-and-ahalf years for conspiracy to steal and Carrod, from Taplow, Buckinghamshire, received three and a half years for burglary.