The cousin of a man on trial over the £53 million Securitas depot heist in Tonbridge last February has claimed in court he was offered £1 million by a policeman for information.

Esmir Demaliaj said the officer demanded that he tell him more about Jetmir Bucpapa, currently in the dock at the Old Bailey.

He said he had nothing to tell but they kept visiting him at his home, on one occasion "screaming" through the letterbox, Mr Demaliaj told the court.

The man who he claimed offered him money was identified in court as a Detective Constable Johnston.

Mr Demaliaj had given a statement and the officer had been behaving politely but then the mood changed, he said.

He told the court: "He was saying 'you have got a lot of information to tell us, why don't you tell us?' He kept offering me a lot of money.

"He said they would get me a million pounds if I told them what they wanted. But I had nothing to tell, nothing to hide. I'd already told them what I knew."

He was arrested days after the heist and the alleged £1 million offer to Mr Demaliaj was said to have taken place some months later.

Afterwards officers would repeatedly call him on his mobile and home phone, it was alleged.

Albanian Bucpapa, 26, of Hadlow Road, Tonbridge; Emir Hysenaj, 28, of New Road, Crowborough; Lea Rusha, 35, of Lambersart Close, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Stuart Royle, 49, of Allen Street, Maidstone, Kent; John Fowler, 59, of Elderden Farm, Chart Hill Road, Staplehurst, Kent and Roger Coutts, 30, of The Green, Welling, south-east London all deny conspiracy to rob.

The trial continues.