The key players at the behind of a �40 million trinket heist are doubtful ever to be caught, a jury was told today.
Ian Bourne, QC, pronounced the 7 men in the wharf over last years armed raid on Graff Diamonds in Mayfair, executive London, were not the smarts at the behind of the armed robbery.
Two men used veteran make-up artists to costume their appearance, and shot at anybody who attempted to block their shun from the jewellers on Aug 6 last year, Woolwich Crown Court in easterly London was told.
Defending Craig Calderwood, 27, who admits carrying out the raid but insists he was behaving underneath duress, Mr Bourne pronounced there were most opposite purposes to be played in an armed heist.
But he said: Those at the top, and those who are in lift out of what is going on, are able, you might think, to sojourn detached, are occasionally seen and are never caught.
At slightest 4 people seen in a array of getaway cars, and a motorcyclist who was handed the jewels, remained on the run, he said.
He combined that others were compulsory to take the nuts and bolts to have the operation a success.
Referring to Calderwood, Mr Bourne went on: It was inevitable, we submit, that he would be held as those who recruited, or should we contend press-ganged, him were aware.
Earlier, Calderwood told the justice he carried out the raid after being told he and his mom would be killed if he did not.
But progressing Philip Bennetts, for the prosecution, pronounced Calderwood and Aman Kassaye, 24, programmed and executed the heist, entering Graffs and hidden the gems at gunpoint.
Petra Ehnar, a emporium partner at the store in New Bond Street, Mayfair, described how she was petrified when she was forced to dull arrangement cabinets with a gun to her behind during the raid.
She filled a bag with 43 pieces of trinket together with earrings, necklaces and watches value a sum of �40 million. One solid necklace alone was valued at �3.5 million.
Meanwhile, physical education instructor Martin Leggatt lay spread-eagled on the building with a gun forked at his head and Ms Ehnar was told she would be killed if she did not lift out the robbers" demands.
Several members of staff and security guards have denied accusations of an inside pursuit given the hearing proposed on Apr 21.
The squad used a array of getaway cars and a motorcycle to shun opposite the capital, banishment dual shots in the process.
The jury of eight women and 4 men was shown footage of the impulse Kassaye dismissed a shot in the travel outward the store as passers-by began to realize what was happening.
The mobile phone footage held lifted voices and cheering outward the jewellers prior to a shrill shot sent people using for cover.
All 7 defendants repudiate swindling to rob in between Aug 3 and Aug 7, 2009.
Calderwood, of no bound address, additionally denies possessing a handgun and sawn-off shotgun.
Kassaye, additionally of no bound address, additionally denies kidnap and receive of a handgun and sawn-off shotgun.
Solomun Beyene, 25, of Lilestone Street, Marylebone, north west London, is indicted of shopping supposed unwashed telephones and employing a Transit outpost used as one of the restraint vehicles.
Clinton Mogg, 43, of Westby Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, is indicted of on condition that the London residence used by an trusting make-up artist to have Kassaye and Calderwood see comparison than they were.
Courtney Lawrence, 31, of Ladbroke Grove, west London, is indicted of being concerned in the squeeze of serve mobile phones.
David Joseph, 23, of Flaxman Road, Loughborough Junction, south easterly London, allegedly used one of the restraint vehicles and his fingerprints were found on the fake series image used on the back of the BMW getaway car.
And Thomas Thomas, 45, of Penrhyn Road, Kingston on Thames, Surrey, is indicted of employing serve restraint vehicles used by the gang.
Two alternative menGregory Jones, 30, of Elgin Avenue, Maida Vale, west London, and Benjamine McFarlane, 22, of Paveley Street, Marylebone, north west Londonwere privileged last month after decider Jeffrey Pegden QC ruled they had no box to answer.
The hearing continues.
