Saturday 12 November 2011

Don't panic: Hi-tech security for your home - Telegraph

Don't panic: Hi-tech security for your home - Telegraph

We all know Corporal Jones’s catch phrase from Dad’s Army, shouted at moments of high anxiety. But when businessman and West Ham United chairman David Gold learnt he was on the hit list of armed robbers, catch phrases weren’t quite enough. He didn’t panic, but he did spend a quarter of a million pounds on a suite of secure rooms at his mansion in Surrey. Better safe than sorry.

Should raiders now burst in, he and fiancée Lesley Manning will be able to lock themselves behind triple-bolted steel doors. Inside they will have a direct line to the police, and will be able to monitor the intruders’ movements with the help of CCTV cameras.

Gold was tipped off by his friend and fellow tycoon John Caudwell, founder of mobile phone firm Phones4U. Caudwell had been attacked in his 16th-century mansion by intruders. They beat him up, terrorised his fiancée, and escaped with an estimated £1.2 million in cash and jewels. He was quick to warn his friend that he might be next.

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