Exclusive Interview:Wife of Villain Wanted for Pounds 53m Securitas Raid Tells Why She Believes He Was Murdered - by the Sinister 'Mr X'

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PEOPLE stop and stare whenever Therese Lupton so much as goes to the shops for a loaf of bread. They nudge each other and sometimes point. Shes the one whose old man got away with all those millions, she hears them mutter.

Curiously, some even make plain their admiration, reflecting the way some in our society applaud villains who pull off a big one and flee beyond the reach of justice, no matter the misery they may have left behind.

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Exclusive Interview:Wife of Villain Wanted for Pounds 53m Securitas Raid Tells Why She Believes He Was Murdered - by the Sinister 'Mr X'

Thereses husband is Sean Lupton, Britains number one fugitive the man who is believed to have escaped to Northern Cyprus, possibly with Pounds 32 million of the Pounds 53 million stolen from the Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, in February 2006.

Last week five of the gang were convicted of kidnap, robbery and firearms offences at the Old Bailey. They had brutally kidnapped the depot manager, his wife and their young child and used them to gain entry to the site. Police recovered Pounds 21 million but the rest of the cash, along with Lupton and several others, slipped through their fingers.

Therese, meanwhile, remains in the Kent seaside town of Whitstable, where she works as a Pounds 7-an-hour legal secretary. She returns each night to her two teenage children, to the three- bedroom detached house her husband ...

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