Overview
- Footage shown at Snaresbrook Crown Court showed Kwabena Kissi wearing a retained G4S uniform and helmet to gain entry to a Santander branch and collect cash bags from the vault on July 5, 2022.
- Kissi took £117,200 from £256,000 prepared for collection by posing as a courier and leaving with the money in a briefcase before changing clothes and ordering a minicab.
- He flew to Accra the day after the theft and lived there for nearly four years, a period his defence said was spent caring for an ill mother who later died.
- Detectives arrested Kissi at Gatwick in March 2026 after he booked an Uber in his own name and officers found the same phone on him that linked him to the 2022 heist.
- Kissi admitted fraud and was sentenced to three years and four months by Judge Rosa Dean, with the court and police highlighting the role of insider knowledge, retained uniform access, and persistent CCTV and phone forensics in securing the conviction.