A MAN from Kent allegedly involved in an armed robbery in which another man was shot dead by the Metropolitan Police will stand trial in October.

David Jenkins, 60, of Pantheon Gardens, Ashford, denies robbing the Nationwide Building Society of £105,000 in New Romney on October 31 last year and possessing a firearm at the time.

His son, Dean, 40, and 22-year-old Ben Grehan, have admitted the same robbery but deny the firearm charge.

During the raid, 41-year-old Robert Haines, of Canterbury Road, Challock, was shot by officers. The married father-of-two, who worked as a nightclub doorman, died later in the William Harvey Hospital.

Jenkins appeared at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday with his son and Grehan. Jenkins Snr was released on bail with conditions that include five sureties of £20,000 each, reporting daily to Ashford police and a curfew between 9pm and 6am.

Dean Jenkins, of Wilks Close, Rainham, and Grehan, of Vermont Road, Upper Norwood, have also admitted 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 on October 4.

However, they deny conspiracy to possess a firearm in relation to both raids.

Prosecutor Alan Kent said the Crown accepted Grehan's pleas and he will be sentenced at the end of David Jenkins's trial. Judge Andrew Patience QC said the case was one of "high seriousness" in which custody was inevitable.

Further charges against Dean Jenkins relating to robberies in Birchington and Strood are still being considered. A hearing concerning these will take place on June 22.

Both Grehan and Dean Jenkins were remanded in custody.