The Heathrow Heist: security guard tied up and ‘robbed’ of £7m in …

Jurors were told it was an “audacious” theft – one of the biggest in British criminal history – worthy of a Hollywood script called “the Heathrow Heist” and a classic “inside job”.

The 28 bags of cash weighing nearly half a tonne have never been recovered.

Prosecutor Sandip Patel QC said: “It was £7million in cash stolen. It’s an enormous amount, and I am going to use an American term which I like, it was a heist of £7million in cash.

“It was an audacious theft carefully planned and executed and you may think it would make a Hollywood movie script, they would call it the ‘Heathrow Heist’ if anyone wanted to write a script about it.

“It is one of the biggest in British criminal history, there have been bigger, but £7million in a significant amount.

“It was also an inside job, to use the colloquialism, and we say it had to be an inside job by these two defendants. They acted out their parts to the scripts they had already agreed.”

Siddique admits his involvement, Mr Patel said.

“He says he was involved and took part in the offence, but this defendant says he was forced to do it, he had to go along because he had no choice as he had been threatened and his family had been threatened,” the prosecutor said.

The jury were told Rafaqat Hussain, 41, has already pleaded guilty to his part in the plot, and was described as one of the organisers, making arrangements with the two defendants and to make sure the “money was squirrelled away thereafter”.

Siddique, of Slough, Berkshire, and Singh also of Slough, both deny one count of conspiracy to steal £7million from Credit Suisse.

The trial continues.