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Murdered lawyer in gold heist link
Jul 27 2003
By Caroline Wheeler, Sunday Mercury
Sensational new documents could link murdered West Midland solicitor Colin Hickman to the Brinks-Mat gold bullion robbery.
The Sunday Mercury has discovered bank statements which expose what could be a multi-billion pound international money laundering racket.
And police sources believe that the suspected $400 BILLION fraud may be connected to the lawyers murder and the Brinks-Mat millions.
Two Midland businesses are named in the bank documents - Knights Enterprises and Tempest Templegate & Kane, both formerly based in Kingswinford and Stourbridge.
Knights Enterprises was dissolved in 1991 and Tempest in 1995. There is nothing to suggest that they had broken any company rules or were the subject of police investigations.
Mr Hickman, 55, oversaw legal work for both companies and Timothy Caines - the man now serving life for his murder - was one of their financial consultants.
Earlier this month we revealed how police and underworld sources had linked the solicitors death to road-rage gangster Kenneth Noye, who was jailed in 1986 for his part in the Brinks-Mat heist.
The brutal murder may have centred on a financial dispute, with both Mr Hickman and Caines caught up in a huge fraud involving gangsters including M25 killer Noye.
Now a Sunday Mercury investigation has unearthed fresh evidence about the scale of fraud being conducted by shadowy businessmen who were linked to Mr Hickman.
The solicitor died after being stabbed 15 times in the neck and body in a frenzied attack after he opened the front door of his home in Earlsdon, Coventry, in 1994.
Caines, of Moseley, Birmingham, was found guilty of his murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
