LONDON (AP) – The jury in the trial of eight people charged in Britain’s largest cash robbery was shown dramatic footage Wednesday of suspects threatening depot workers with automatic weapons before making off with millions.

The images, first made public at the trial, showed how masked men posed as police to gain entry to a depot owned by Securitas Cash Management Ltd. in Tonbridge, Kent, about 30 miles southeast of London.

Prosecutors say that on Feb. 22, 2006, depot manager Colin Dixon was stopped by what appeared to be a police car and then kidnapped as he drove home from work. While Dixon was held at an isolated farm, his wife and child were lured from their home by other men posing as police, who said Dixon had been injured in a car accident. Dixon’s wife and child were held separately while the $106 million robbery was carried out.

The images, taken from closed circuit television footage, show Dixon being driven to the depot and led through the lobby by a man dressed as a policeman.

Once inside, the man in the police uniform took out a gun and donned a mask. He held up the 14 employees as the other robbers, dressed in black with balaclavas over their heads, crept in.

Workers were threatened with death, prosecutors said, as they were held at gunpoint and tied up on the floor.

The thieves then accessed the vault and found cages packed full of cash. They loaded as much as they could onto a white truck before driving off.

Prosecutor John Nutting said two other men, in custody in Morocco, will stand trial next year with three women. British police are still looking for another two men who disappeared after the robbery.

Police have recovered around $40 million of the stolen money.

The robbery is believed to be the largest heist during peacetime. It eclipsed a $70 million theft from the Central Bank in Fortaleza, Brazil in August, a $65 million heist at the Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Center in London in 1987, and a $50 million robbery at the Northern Bank of Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2004.

But all four were dwarfed by the wartime theft of $900 million in U.S. bills and as much as $100 million worth of euros from the Iraq Central Bank in 2003.

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