A MINICAB driver wept in the dock as he denied acting as the 'getaway' man in an armed robbery.

Gilroy Goode, 39, is accused of being one of six men who looted £100,000 cash raised for victims of the Pakistani earthquake disaster from an children's clothes shop in the East End after threatening the owner's daughter.

He was pulled up while driving a Lexus jeep said to have been used in the robbery at Sunny Wholesale in Whitechapel the day after the raid.

The father-of-one was carrying £3,000 alleged to be from the loot in his pockets.

Another £1,600 was found in the Lexus, the Old Bailey has heard last Thursday.

But Goode insisted the jeep belonged to one of the raiders who admitted robbery and possessing firearms before the trial, 34-year-old Owen Morgan.

He simply acted as Morgan's 'chauffeur' hired by him because he was banned, he told jurors, and was allowed to use the jeep when it was not needed.
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