MMA Fighter Lee Murray Denies Masterminding $83M Kent Robbery in New Documentary

"I didn’t have control. It wasn’t me who had the idea, it wasn’t me who knew where the depot manager lived. It wasn’t me who knew what car he was driving. I wasn’t the one who had someone working inside. You understand? How can I be the mastermind? It wasn’t my idea," says Lee Murray from his cell in Salé prison, where he is serving a 25-year sentence, in the Showtime documentary Catching Lightning produced by filmmaker Pat Kondelis.

Disguised as police officers, Murray and his accomplices had robbed a Securitas depot in southeast England on the night of February 21, 2006. They had taken the depot manager Colin Dixon, as well as his wife and son, hostage to force them to open the site. "We then told him: ’Listen, we’re not real cops. Do what we tell you, do what we tell you.’ Obviously, we showed him that we had a weapon on us," the inmate recounts. He and his accomplices had taken away £53 million. But they had left behind £153 million, for lack of space in their vehicle. The police had later recovered nearly £21 million (€28 million).