TWO men are to face a re-trial next year over Britain's biggest cash robbery.
A jury said it could not reach a verdict on 58-year-old James Power -- the last of four defendants being tried in connection with the theft of £6.6 million in cash and cheques from a security van in 1995.
On Thursday the panel were discharged from deliberating further on the van's driver, Graham Huckerby, aged 41 -- who was accused of being the "inside man" for the raid outside the Midland Bank Clearing Centre in Salford.
Yesterday the jury were finally discharged from all deliberations by trial judge Peter Lakin after discussing the case for 35 hours.
Power, of Hornby Street, Bury, was arrested after an undercover policeman, known only as "Barry", posed as a disgruntled security guard and met him in pubs in the locality. He was accused of being Huckerby's "handler".
Power denied conspiracy to rob. He and ex-policeman Huckerby, of Clifton Road, Prestwich, who also denies the charge, will face their re-trial in January 2002.
Two other men -- William Goulden, aged 46, of Trinity Gardens, Canning Town, East London, and Derek Wilson, aged 31, of Sailors Palace, Commercial Road, East London, were cleared on Wednesday of conspiracy to rob.
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