By Mario Ledwith PUBLISHED: 12:46 EST, 18 December 2012 | UPDATED: 12:47 EST, 18 December 2012 Two relatives of fugitive security guard Eddie Maher, who disappeared for 19 years after £1.2 million was stolen from a security van in which he was working, have been arrested. Maher's partner Debbie Brett, 47, and sister Margaret Francis were today arrested by Suffolk police officers on suspicion of conspiracy to steal and assisting an offender. The arrests are in connection to the 1993 theft, in which the huge sum was taken from a Securicor van in Felixstowe, Suffolk. On trial: Eddie Maher, pictured in 1989 and in 2012, is on trial in March charged with the theft of £1.2 million form a security van in 1993
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Maher's partner Debbie Brett, 47, and sister Margaret Francis, 64 arrested
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Arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to steal and assisting an offender
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Maher to appear in court in March charged with theft from security van
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