An old safe being cut up for recycling was found to have £20,000 cash hidden inside it.

Four locked safes were delivered to the Sackers scrap yard in Great Blakenham near Ipswich, Suffolk, six weeks ago.

Staff used a mobile shear to force them open before one was found stuffed with bundles of notes and bags of coins.

Yard manager Kevin Harrington said: ‘It had been in there a long while, the money was very dusty and we didn’t count it all but we guestimate that there was £20,000 in there but not all legal tender anymore which shows how long it had been left for.’

The money is set to go to charity after Sackers handed it over to police and they were unable to identify the original owner.

Sackers said safes routinely come in to be scrapped, but they are rarely filled with anything.

A spokesman said the cash ‘was made up of some legal tender and some old tender and was clearly in there for many years as it was dusty and wet from being in the rain’.

The safe was one of eight they were working on at the time.

Mr Harrington said: ‘We often get safes in and we tend to store them up as they are quite difficult to deal with.

‘We had about eight in at the time when we started snipping them. We’d snipped up three before we found the money.’

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