Guard denies being involved in an inside job at the Ecclestone home

Tamara Ecclestone’s security guard has denied turning off the alarm for burglars who grabbed £25m in jewellery and cash from her Kensington mansion. Ian Eltringham, the only security guard who was in the house during the raid last December, told jurors he confronted the three burglars after hearing banging. Two of them ‘steamrollered’ him and one threatened him with a fire extinguisher before they escaped through a window. Mr Eltringham said: ‘I believe they were exceptionally lucky ‘Unfortunately things didn’t…

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