Three men have denied targeting women in an alleged CS spray “gang-related” robbery at Heathrow Airport that left more than 20 people needing medical treatment.
Tyrone Richards, 31, Anton Clarke-Butcher, 24, and Omoneke Whyte, 30, allegedly stole two suitcases from two separate women using the noxious spray on both.
They are each charged with two counts of robbery, two of administering a noxious substance and one of affray after the incident on December 7 last year.
Ambulance crews treated 21 people, including a three-year-old child, who had been hit with the noxious spray in a multi-storey car park at Terminal 3 of the airport.
Before the spray was used, two women were robbed of their suitcases – one purple and one white – after they got out of the car park lift, police previously said.
CS spray is a man-made chemical that UK police forces use to temporarily incapacitate people in a similar manner to pepper spray.
The trio will appear for trial at Isleworth Crown Court on June 29.
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