Three black Africans have been jailed after £40,000 from a series of cash van raids in London turned up in South Africa

A car, containing the money, was found on the quayside in Durban, South Africa, in December 2008. Theo Boateng, 47, from Harlow, Essex, Takaidza Hungwe, 43, from Gillingham, Kent, and Ebenezer Gyau, 43, from Enfield, north London, were convicted of conspiracy to rob. They were jailed for a total of 45 years at Snaresbrook Crown Court. The gang committed at least five robberies on security guards in Bethnal Green, East Ham and Stoke Newington between April and December 2008. Hungwe, who is from Zimbabwe, and Boateng, a Ghanaian, were given vital information about the van's routes by Gyau, an "inside man" who worked for G4S. Gyau, who is also from Ghana, also supplied them with special SQS keys which could be used to unlock the cash boxes without the money being splashed with blue dye. Boateng, who was convicted after a trial, was jailed for 18 years while Hungwe and Gyau, who both pleaded guilty, were jailed for 14 and 13 years respectively.