A WOMAN kidnapped during Britain’s biggest ever cash robbery has denied playing a conspiring role in the £53 million heist as a willing hostage.

Lynn Dixon and her husband, cash depot manager Colin, were kidnapped along with their young child, during the robbery of the Securitas depot in Tonbridge on February 21 last year.

At the Old Bailey today Sir John Nutting QC, for the prosecution, responded to defence claims that Mrs Dixon had not phoned the police promptly when her husband failed to return home on the night of the robbery.

Sir John said: “The implication may be that you, in fact, were a party to this criminal endeavour.

“The jury may have got the impression that the object of this questioning demonstrates that you failed to ring the police because of that.”

Looking at the jury, a tearful Mrs Dixon, her voice cracking with emotion, replied: “I wish you could have been there."

She added: “People don’t know us. We wouldn’t consider anything like that.”

She recalled how the robbers had forced her to lie to her child, explaining that the youngster’s father was in hospital.

She also recalled trying to keep her child calm, “not knowing how that night would end, whether we would survive.”

Mrs Dixon also denied she was mistaken in identifying Elderden Farm as the location she was held prior to the robbery.

She said: “I’m 100 per cent convinced...I might have got measurements wrong but in the dark that was the best I could have done.”

Mrs Dixon was giving evidence in the trial at the Old Bailey in London against seven men and one woman who are all charged in connection with the £53 million robbery at the Securitas depot, Vale Road, Tonbridge, in February 2006.

Lea Rusha, of Lambersart Close, Southborough; Stuart Royle, from Allen Street, Maidstone; Jetmir Bucpapa, of Hadlow Road, Tonbridge; Roger Coutts, of The Green, Welling; John Fowler, of Chart Hill Road, Staplehurst; Ermir Hysenaj, of New Road, Crowborough; and Michelle Hogg, of Brinklow Crescent, Woolwich, have all pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to rob and conspiracy to have in their possession a firearm.

Another man, Keith Borer, from Hampstead Lane, Yalding, stands accused of dishonestly receiving £6,100 of stolen Securitas money, which he denies.

The trial continues.