TIMELINE - Record cash robbery

LONDON (Reuters) - Five men were found guilty on Monday of carrying out the country's record heist -- a 53 million pound robbery from a cash depot in Kent.

Here is a chronology of the events leading up to the raid in the early hours of February 22, 2006.

February 21, 2006:

5.30 p.m.:

Colin Dixon, the manager of the Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, leaves his office and starts his journey home. He telephones his wife to say he is on his way back.

Just before 6.30 p.m.:

Dixon is pulled over by an "unmarked police car" with flashing blue lights near the Three Squirrels Pub in Detling Hill, near Maidstone.

He is ushered into the car and then handcuffed. Dixon's car is left dumped at the pub car park. He was told he was being taken to Maidstone police station. Shortly afterwards one of the "police officers" takes out a gun and tells him to do as he's told.

At a lay-by he is transferred to a white Transit van and tied up and tape stuck over his eyes.