Armed police raided 'getaway driver's home', court told (From Your Local Guardian)

Armed police raided 'getaway driver's home', court told

9:11am Wednesday 3rd September 2008 in

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Armed police stormed the Raynes Park home of a man accused of being the getaway driver in a bank robbery where two men were shot, a court heard.

Terence Wallace, 26, of Oakwood Road, appeared at Kingston Crown Court charged with conspiracy to rob a security van outside an HSBC bank in Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire on September 13, 2007.

As police thwarted the botched robbery, alleged gang leader Mark Nunes, 35, was shot dead by marksmen when he pulled a gun on a security guard.

Another supposed robber, Andrew Markland, 36, was also killed.

Camera footage from the moment of the shooting was shown to the jury.

But Detective Constable Phillip Dalton, who filmed the video, told the jury how he lost sight of a getaway car speeding from the scene.

D Con Dalton said: “I was so absorbed in the situation as it was the first time I’d ever been involved in something that traumatic. I just didn’t see the Volvo leave the scene of the shooting.”

The court heard how Wallace had been behind the wheel and driven the car along the M3 to Basingstoke after the robbery.

He was arrested the next day after police found CCTV footage of Wallace in Basingstoke train station and the same blue Volvo parked nearby.

In a police interview played to the jury, Wallace claimed he had no involvement in the robbery and had instead spent the day looking for work and visiting a friend living in Tulse Hill.

He said: “You must be having a laugh coming round to my home, busting down my door saying I’ve been involved in an armed robbery.”

But Wallace was unable to provide an alibi during the robbery which took place shortly after 7am.

He denies conspiracy to rob, as do Adrain Johnson, and Leroy Wilkinson, both from Streatham and Victor Iniodu, 34, from Tooting.

The trial continues.