A driver and 3 other males are facing prison sentences following
admitting becoming involved in a plot to steal £1 million worth of gold and
silver bullion.
They pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey right now to conspiracy to steal the bullion in Antwerp, Belgium, final October.
Bullion lorry driver Brian Mulcahay, 44, of Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, David Chatwood, 53, and Stanley Rose, 74, both of Brentwood, Essex, and David Gale, 55, also of Essex, had been remanded in custody.
The valuable metal was said to be the property of Swiss business Metalor.
Mulcahay was found by police locked in his car in Belgium on October 4 right after ringing his employers to say he had been robbed.
Chatwood was observed to speak to some of the other accused conspirators 4 days later at a Harvester restaurant in Dartford, Kent.
Nine days immediately after the robbery, most of the bullion was found in an apartment and a hotel space in Antwerp which had been rented by Rose, the court heard.
Judge Peter Rook told the males: “This is a really serious matter and a custodial sentence is inevitable.”
They will be sentenced later this year following the trial of five men and one particular woman accused of the very same offence and of conspiracy to launder the proceeds of the crime.
PA
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