A boxing club owner accused of masterminding a £1.1 million heist at Gatwick airport was caught on CCTV unloading the haul from an earlier raid, a court heard.

Paul Bowers, 37, and his team allegedly planned organised crime from the East End's famous Peacock Gym, which has been used by Lennox Lewis and Prince Naseem.

Southwark Crown Court yesterday heard how police videotaped Bowers as he moved boxes of food blenders into a van at the gang's lock-up.

The crates were part of an £83,000 haul of electrical goods stolen from Thamesport, Kent, in November 2002.

Bowers and at least 11 other men were allegedly behind a series of hijackings from docks and airports in a crimewave that could have netted more than £2 million.

The team allegedly used underground contacts to obtain inside information before raiding cargo holds across the UK.

At Gatwick, the gang allegedly posed as Brink's security guards with bogus uniforms and passes and managed to get into the British Airways world cargo terminal where the money, belonging to the HSBC bank, was stored.

They are accused of conning a security guard into opening the vault where the money was kept. He even helped them load the vehicle.

They then escaped with £1,123,639 in a van marked with the security company's logo. Bank officials did not realise they were impostors until after their arrest.

They were unaware police were watching them, having planted bugs and surveillance cameras at the Peacock Gym and a nearby warehouse in Canning Town.

Bowers is in the dock with co-accused Lewis Nicholl, 55, and alleged Gatwick insider Keith Rayment, 29.

Bowers, of Drew Road, Silvertown, and Nicholl, of Old School Place, Union Street, 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, of Pride View, Stone Cross, Eastbourne, each deny conspiracy to obtain property by deception.

The trial continues.