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Terry Sandford leaving Isleworth Crown Court, where he faces charges of the theft of Matthew Pinsent's Olympic Gold Medal. The three-time Olympic champion Matthew Pinsent told a court of his "shock and panic" when he realised the medals had vanished. * The British rower, who scooped gold in the coxless fours rowing event at the Sydney Olympics discovered his briefcase containing the medal was missing moments after meeting his girlfriend who had stepped off a plane at Heathrow Airport. Former cab driver Terry Sandford, 42, from Bexleyheath, south east London, denies stealing the medal. *03/05/2001 Terry Sandford who was found guilty, Thursday May 3 2001 of trying stealing a briefcase containing Olympic hero Matthew Pinsent's Gold Medal. A jury at Isleworth Crown Court found Sandford, 41, of Bexleyheath, Kent, not guilty of theft, but guilty of attempted theft on October 6 last year at Heathrow Airport. Mr Pinsent had left the bag on his vehicle's roof in the car park by mistake while picking up his girlfriend. 25/5/2001: Sandford was facing a possible jail sentence for trying to steal a briefcase containing Olympic hero Matthew Pinsent's gold medal. Terry Sandford grabbed the rower's leather case after seeing it lying on a car roof at Heathrow Airport. Mr Pinsent, 30, had left it there by mistake while meeting his Canadian girlfriend from a flight from Toronto. A jury at Isleworth Crown Court, west London, earlier cleared Sandford of theft but found him guilty of attempted theft. (Photo by Peter Jordan - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)