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		</div><p>A G4S driver has been jailed for stealing close to £1m (€1.1m) in cash from one of the security firm’s vans and then concealing the stolen money from the police.</p>
<p>Joel March, 36, fled with deposit boxes after abandoning the cash-in-transit vehicle in a leafy south London street on April 23, a court heard.</p>
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<p>March, of Rectory Grove, Clapham, admitted theft by employee and concealing the proceeds of crime and was jailed for four years and eight months on Friday.</p>
<p>Prosecutor Alex Agbamu told Inner London Crown Court that March had arrived for work that morning and picked up the van with 48 containers of cash totalling £916,190 (€1m) inside.</p>
<p>But the court heard that instead of delivering the cash around the Holborn area the father-of-three had driven to Larkhall Rise in Clapham, ditched the van and fled with the cash.</p>
<p>Mr Agbamu said 43 of the 48 deposit boxes containing £889,440 (€990,000) were missing from the van.</p>
<p>He added that the van had been left in the street, which had no CCTV cameras, for a number of hours before a member of the public reported it to G4S.</p>
<p>The firm used a spare key to enter the van and saw that March had gone, leaving his personal and work phone, body armour, the keys in the ignition, and a bag of cash had been left in the back, he added.</p>
<p>He added: “Mr March was a driver for G4S and on April 23 he was entrusted to deliver almost £1m in cash to various addresses in central London.</p>
<p>“But instead of making those deliveries he stole the cash and refused to disclose to the police where most of the stolen cash was.”</p>
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<p>March was arrested the next day at a property in Clapham, south London, where police found £28,600 (€32,000) in cash, the court heard.</p>
<p>Mr Agbamu said that the morning before being arrested March had spent around £1,400 (€1,560) in cash on new sportswear and footwear from JD Sports.</p>
<p>But the court heard March had refused to tell police where the rest of the cash was.</p>
<p>Michael Hillman, mitigating, said his client had racked about £10,000 (€11,100) in debt, had a background of mental health problems and had become “disillusioned” with his employer.</p>
<p>He added: “He felt they did not appreciate the stress he was put under, the daily risk of being victim of cash in transit robberies.</p>
<p>“This theft was a spontaneous decision under great stress.”</p>
<p>Judge Usha Karu said it was a “very high breach of trust”.</p>
<p>But she did not accept that the theft was an “impulsive spur of the moment” act and said that March’s defence of being “disillusioned” with G4S and £10,000 (€11,100) in debt was not a “credible explanation”.</p>
<p>She added: “It’s submitted on your behalf that your job was stressful and your relationship with G4S had deteriorated, in particularly due to a written warning you received from your employer.</p>
<p>“I cannot see how that could have caused you any grievance.</p>
<p>“There’s no obvious explanation for this offence other than greed.</p>
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<p>“You have not co-operated at all as to the whereabouts of the money.</p>
<p>“This was not an impulsive spur of the moment action, there can be no credible suggestion of such. It may not be a particularly sophisticated operation but it was planned in advance.”</p>
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