London £1.38M Watch Heist Was Staged with Everyone’s Consent 🕵️‍♂️

An alleged robbery in which watches worth £1.38 million were stolen was "staged" and everyone involved consented, including a jewellery store manager who later killed himself, a court has been told.Junior Kunu, 30, and Mannix Pedro, 37, are charged with conspiring with others to commit the robbery after more than 70 luxury watches were stolen from the 247 Kettles shop in Richmond, south-west London, on May 25 last year.Office manager Oliver White, 27, died by suicide the next day "as a direct result" of the robbery, jurors were previously told.Giving evidence at Woolwich Crown Court on Wednesday, Kunu repeatedly insisted: "This was not a robbery, this was staged," and said he was told he would be paid £5,000 for putting watches into a bag."I knew that I was going to take part in a staged robbery where everyone was consenting," Kunu said."I knew that the person in the shop was going to comply. I knew that I was going to put watches in the bag and I had to do nothing else."Two other men said to have been involved - Michael Ashman and Kyle Bowrage - are still at large, having fled abroad soon after May 25.