A man who was extradited from Morocco and charged in connection with the £53 million Securitas robbery in England appeared in court today.
Paul Allen (29), from Chatham, Kent, did not enter a plea to the 14 charges he faces in relation to the UK's biggest cash robbery, when he appeared at Maidstone Magistrates' Court.
He was remanded in custody to appear at the Central Criminal Court on February 8th.
Mr Allen is charged with one charge of conspiracy to rob an employee of Securitas, three charges of conspiracy to kidnap, six charges of possessing an illegal firearm, one charge of robbery and three charges of kidnap between July 1st, 2005, and February 23rd, 2006.
He was extradited from Morocco yesterday after being arrested there in 2006 and held at a prison in Rabat on unrelated charges along with another suspect. He had remained imprisoned in Morocco while administrative details were finalised.
Extradition proceedings against the second suspect have still to be completed.
Five other men were convicted on Monday at the Old Bailey in connection with the robbery plot, but police are still hunting several other suspects.
The robbers kidnapped the manager of the Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, and his wife and child, before getting away with £53 million (€71 million) in February 2006.