A security van driver who took part in a fake heist got away with more than £300,000 - but will only have to repay £1.

A jury decided Jimmy Doolly was part of the conspiracy to steal the money near Sevenoaks.

Now a judge has ruled he was responsible for the full £329,093, but because he has no assets he is liable for a nominal quid.

One of his co-accused William Williams, 42, accepted he was liable for the money - and has been ordered to sign over £75,201 which had been seized by detectives.

But lawyers for Doolly - who still claims he is innocent - argued he shouldn't be held responsible for the whole amount, though the judge ruled against him.

Judge David Griffith-Jones QC said the legal arguments were "fundamentally flawed" and he had been part of a conspiracy.

Doolly, 35, was given seven days to cough up or face another week in jail, while Williams was given 28 days to pay the money or face another 12 months inside.

Doolly had been employed by Lions Security and Systems Ltd, based in Crawley, West Sussex, as a cash-in-transit van driver delivering money collected from businesses to a cash centre in Tonbridge.

Shortly after 7am on August 28, 2017, Doolly reported he had been robbed of the £319,408 he was carrying in the van.

Doolly had pretended that two men purporting to be police and driving a black Audi A3 fitted with a siren and blue lights made him pull over at the side of the A21 near Morley's roundabout in Sevenoaks as he drove to a cash depot in nearby Tonbridge.

But a jury heard how an investigation undertaken by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directive revealed there had been no robbery.

Lions Security began operating in 2012 and ceased trading as a result of the cash loss.

Simon Taylor, prosecuting , asked the judge to rule the £75,200 should be paid to the company.

Williams was jailed for five years, with a further 12 months' consecutive for unrelated firearm and drug offences.

Doolly - described as the gang's "inside man" - received a four and a half year sentence. Both men are from Caterham.

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