The jury in the Millennium Dome diamond raid trial was sent home tonight without reaching any verdicts.

The Old Bailey jury is trying five men accused of plotting to snatch £200 million diamonds from the Dome in Greenwich, London.

Jurors will return to court tomorrow to continue their deliberations.

The six men-six women jury had resumed considering verdicts today after a 48 hour interruption through illness.

The prosecution has alleges that the gang intended to snatch the stones by smashing their way into the Dome on an earthmover and escape across the Thames by speedboat.

Boat skipper Kevin Meredith, 34, of Aucklands Drive, Brighton, denies both conspiracy to rob and conspiracy to steal.

Aldo Ciarrocchi, 32, of Bermondsey, south-east London; Raymond Betson, 40, of Chatham, Kent; William Cockram, 49, from Catford, south-east London; and Robert Adams, 57, of no fixed address, all deny conspiracy to rob.

They have admitted a lesser charge of conspiring to steal.