Terrifying moment £260k armed robbery gang caught leaving with huge haul of cash

This is the moment an ‘organised and professional’ armed robbery gang were caught on CCTV leaving various premises with hands full of cash.

Earlier this week, Paul Dunn, 34, Liam McCloy, 35, and Nathan Kennedy, 42, were jailed for robbing over a quarter of a million pounds from cash in transit drivers.

In each of the five robberies over an eight-month period, they attacked a guard, hitting them over the head with a red-bladed axe.

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In footage released by Greater Manchester Police, the men are captured on CCTV cameras as they raided various shops, including a Co-op, and left with arms full of ATM cash cassettes. In total they stole £260,000.

The gang can be seen wearing either balaclavas or face coverings, with their hoods up to conceal their identity.

In one terrifying moment, they are shown to run out of a shop armed with a red-bladed axe. And in another, Dunn, acting alone, can be seen to walk out of a shop carrying £60,000 worth of cassettes.

In another raid, two men can be seen running out of the Co-op, on Chester Road in Manchester, with hands full of the cassettes as a customer walks in.

In a statement, one guard who was targeted twice by the gang said: “This was my fifth attack whilst employed in this role. It has left me shaken up and I have been looking for other employment as I don’t want to be risking my life coming to work.”

The gang also hired rental cars and used stolen cars on false plates to carry out the robberies, prosecutor Joe Allman told Manchester Crown Court.

Over the eight-month period from July 2021 to April 2022, £57,091 was put into Dunn’s bank account, which was frittered away on gambling. In