TWO men entered guilty pleas to three building society robberies when they appeared at Maidstone Crown Court.

Dean Jenkins and Ben Grehan admitted robbing the Nationwide Building Society of £105,000 in New Romney, near Hythe, on October 31 last year, together with Robert Haines who was shot by police and died later in hospital.

They also admit conspiring with Haines to rob Group 4 Securicor at the Abbey National Building Society in Herne Bay on August 24 and Group 4 at the Nationwide in Paddock Wood, near Tunbridge Wells, on October 4.

Jenkins, 39, of Wilks Close, Rainham, and Grehan, 22, of Vermont Road, Upper Norwood, south east London, denied possessing a firearm in the New Romney robbery and conspiracy to possess a firearm in the Herne Bay and Paddock Wood raids.

Jenkins's father David, 60, of Pantheon Gardens, Ashford, denied the New Romney robbery and possessing a firearm at the time. Other charges he is facing have been adjourned until April 20. All three were remanded in custody.

Haines, a night club doorman who lived in a large detached house in Canterbury Road, Challock, near Ashford, was shot by Metropolitan Police.

The 41-year-old married father-of-two died later in the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.