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Mark Cavendish remembered his woman moving into their bedroom, with "figures truly adjacent down her"
Elite cyclist Mark Cavendish and his woman Peta were "terrorised successful their ain home" by balaclava-clad raiders wielding knives, a tribunal has been told.
Two men are connected proceedings and each contradict 2 counts of robbery.
Closing his case, authoritative Edward Renvoize said the "professionalism of the occupation is beyond question".
"[The lawsuit is] rather simply astir a household being terrorised successful their ain home," helium added.
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Image caption,Giving grounds earlier successful the trial, Peta Cavendish said the robbers were "very specific" astir a watch, earlier taking her husband's Richard Mille timepiece from a windowsill
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Image caption,Peta Cavendish said her watch, which suspects did not initially notice, was taken from her bedside table
The proceedings astatine Chelmsford Crown Court has been told the men made disconnected with Richard Mille watches, valued astatine £400,000 and £300,000, arsenic good arsenic phones and a Louis Vuitton suitcase.
Mr Renvoize said the intruders "appeared not to person got the ticker they wanted" but "did marque disconnected with what they could".
Romario Henry, 31, of Bell Green, Lewisham, south-east London, and Oludewa Okorosobo, 28, of Flaxman Road, Camberwell, southbound London, contradict 2 counts of robbery.
Ali Sesay, 28, of Holding Street, Rainham, Kent, has already admitted 2 counts of robbery.
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Image caption,Prosecutor Edward Renvoize said nary of the suspects disposable connected CCTV displayed signs of an injury
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Image caption,Romario Henry, 31 (left) and Oludewa Okorosobo, 28, some contradict 2 counts of robbery
The authoritative formed uncertainty connected Wednesday implicit Mr Okorosobo's assertion helium was not astatine the location successful Ongar successful the aboriginal hours of 27 November, contempt his mobile telephone connecting to compartment masts successful the area.
Mr Henry admitted helium was astatine the country successful the Mercedes Benz car, but was not alert of a robbery taking spot having been "out of it" and "so messed up" aft taking drugs.
The authoritative questioned wherefore Sesay would person "agreed to instrumentality inebriated Mr Henry on for the ride".
Shahid Rashid, defending for Mr Okorosobo, suggested that nary of the 4 individuals seen connected CCTV extracurricular the location could beryllium his lawsuit due to the fact that they did not show the "impediment helium suffers from".
Mr Okorosobo antecedently told jurors he struggled to locomotion aft being stabbed successful the leg successful September 2021.
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Image caption,Peta Cavendish (pictured with Mark Cavendish) told jurors, earlier successful the trial, the acquisition was "everyone's worst nightmare"
Archangelo Power, counsel for Mr Henry, said that his client's "mere beingness unsocial [at the scene] does not magnitude to guilt".
Judge David Turner KC sent the assemblage location for the time and said helium would beryllium summing up the proceedings grounds connected Thursday earlier sending jurors retired to deliberate their verdicts.
The proceedings has heard that a 4th and 5th suspect, Jo Jobson and George Goddard, remained astatine large.
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