An airport supervisor has denied he was the insider on a £1.1 million heist at Gatwick.

Keith Rayment, 29, is accused of providing paperwork that allowed two bogus Brinks security guards to drive off with 13 bags of HSBC money.

The former Securicor guard, of Pride View, Stone Cross, near Eastbourne, is also alleged to have tipped off members of the Peacock Gang about the incoming delivery of cash before the raid at Gatwick in March last year.

Rayment told the jury at Southwark Crown Court yesterday: "I was not the Gatwick insider.

"I wasn't part of any conspiracy to steal money from Gatwick whatsoever."

Two of Britain's best-known boxing promoters, brothers Martin and Tony Bowers, are part of the 13-man group accused of being behind a string of robberies and hijackings at airports and docks across Britain, including the Gatwick raid.

The gang members were unaware police were watching them and that they had bugged the Peacock boxing gym and a nearby warehouse in Canning Town, London.

The court heard the bogus Brinks guards, Ian Burr and Gary Mullen, drove away with the cash after turning up in a Ford Transit decked out like a Brinks van at Gatwick at about 3am on March 27.

But Flying Squad officers gave chase and arrested the pair.

Paul Bowers, 37, allegedly headed the gang, which organised crime from the gym.

Bowers is in the dock with co-accused Lewis Nicholl, 55, and Rayment. Officers arrested Nicholl and Bowers at their homes on May 7 last year and Rayment in August.

Bowers, from Silvertown, east London, and Nicholl, from Maidstone, Kent, deny two counts of conspiracy to obtain property by deception, two counts of conspiracy to handle stolen goods and conspiracy to steal.

Bowers, Nicholl and Rayment deny conspiracy to obtain property by deception.

The trial, expected to last two months, continues.