WHEN the career and family life of Colin Dixon collided, it shattered his world.

After the robbery, Mr Dixon declared that his family were all that was precious to him when he spoke of his "anger beyond belief".

He described the robbery as "the worst night of my life, more than that it was the worst night in the lives of my wife Lynn and our child".

He added: "To use me is bad enough. But to kidnap my wife and child and put guns to their heads and threaten them with death is something so frightening that no words can convey.

"The terror of what happened and the horror of what might have happened is with us in every waking moment. This horrific experience angers me beyond belief.

"I mean, how would you have felt? All that is precious to you, your family, placed in unimaginable danger entirely because of someone else's greed."

Read more about the night that changed their lives forever in this week's Kent Messenger.

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