£53m raider in Moroccan jail hell

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A CAGE fighter who masterminded the UK’s largest cash robbery is begging to be let out of a “hellhole” Moroccan jail.

Lee Murray, 42, has served 14 years in Kenitra prison for the £53million Securitas depot raid in 2006.

He had expected to be sent to finish his sentence in a British jail before the year is out. But sources now think he is being left “to rot” in Morocco.

Murray, who fled to the north African country after the raid, was jailed in 2006 for drugs offences, later extended to 25 years for his part in the heist in

Tonbridge, Kent. Sources say Murray, who has dual nationality, is desperate to return to the UK.

The fighter, whose full name is Lee Brahim Murray-Lamrani, applied to serve the remainder of his sentence in Britain, but is yet to hear anything.

A source said: “Lee is facing terrible conditions and is kept in solitary confinement most of the time. His children are in the UK and all he wants is to be brought back so he can see them.”

Murray was part of a gang who kidnapped depot manager Colin Dixon and his family before stealing used bank notes.

Fourteen other staff were tied up, threatened and locked in cages in an ordeal lasting many hours.

Some £21m was recovered soon after the raid but police have traced just £50,000 of the remainder.