Three men were found guilty of the failed murder of a former Cagefighter convicted of the largest robbery of Great Britain.
Paul Allen, then 41, was paralyzed for life after shots were fired at his large detached house in Woodford Green, Noordoost-London, in 2019.
A jury in the old Bailey was told that the intention was to kill him, and the attackers almost succeeded. “
Louis Ahearne, 36, his brother Stewart Ahearne, 46, and Daniel Kelly, 46, were found guilty today to plan all with others unknown.
Responding to the verdicts in the dock, Stewart Ahearne shouted against the jury: 'You are only people. That is all I have to say about that. '
During the trial, prosecutors claimed that the background of the shooting was that all was a 'refined' career criminal.
He was convicted of Woolwich Crown Court in 2009 for his share in the largest armed robbery of Great Britain, in Securitas in Kent, in which £ 54 million was stolen in cash, a large part of which was never recovered, the court heard.
By 2019 all was released from prison and moved from South London to a large detached building in Woodford, Noordoost-London, where he lived with his partner and young children.
Louis Ahearne, 36, and his brother Stewart, 46, were found guilty today to plan all with others unknown
Daniel Kelly, 46, was also found guilty today as part of the stunning plot
During the trial, prosecutors claimed that the background of the shooting was that all was a 'refined' career criminal
The court heard how the defendants had carefully planned the shooting, had performed surveillance and placed a tracker device on the victim's car to follow his movements.
The defendants traveled from their neighborhood in the Woolwich area in Southeast London, through the Blackwall tunnel, to the new house of the victim in Malvern Drive in a car that was hired two days earlier by Stewart Ahearne.
While Stewart Ahearne waited in the car, Kelly and Louis Ahearne demolished in a garden with a view of the backyard of Mr Allen.
Around 23.09pm, six shots were fired by the back doors and windows, with Mr Alling in the neck while he was in the kitchen.
The men fled back to the waiting car, which drove away, causing their victim to fought for his life.
During the police investigation, DNA was recovered from the garden fence and corresponded to Kelly and Louis Ahearne.
Bullet -shuls in the garden were linked to a glock gun that was compatible with a laser view that was extracted from Kelly's address.
Furthermore, CCTV evidence of the rental car sent by Stewart Ahearne.
Allen was the familiar lieutenant of Felow Cage Fighter Lee 'Lightning' Murray (photo), who has brought the £ 53 million robbery on the Securitas Depot in Tonbridge, in 2006 in 2006
The gang focused on the gigantic Securitas warehouse, which employed 80 people, in which old and new banknotes were selected for distribution to cash and banks throughout Southeast England (shown, CCTV of the robbery)
The court also heard that the three men Ming -Dynasty -Antiek with a value of more than 3.5 million US dollars (£ 2.78 million) of a Swiss museum shortly before the murder plot ended up.
Jury members heard agreed facts about the 'earlier crime' of the defendants with regard to a burglary in the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva on 1 June 2019, a month before all was shot.
Three porcelain from the Ming era were removed from the museum, which had a combined insurance value of 3,580,000 US dollars (£ 2,760,000).
The items were a bottle from the 15th century with a secret pomegranate decoration; A small wine cup known as the 'Chicken Cup'; And a 14th -century a Huan Phoenix Design Bowl.
The defendants flew to Hong Kong on 14 June 2019, where they tried to sell the Phoenix Bowl in an auction house.
On October 16, 2020, Stewart Ahearne was arrested with another man in a London hotel when they tried to sell the Ming vase to an undercover police officer.
A later search for a home revealed a passport in the name of Stewart Ahearne and a book about Ming Dynasty Antiques, the court was told.
The brothers were extradited from Switzerland to be tried about the shooting.
Jury members were also told how two of the defendants were also involved in another burglary in Sevenoaks in Kent, the day before all was shot.
The Renault Captur hired by Stewart Ahearne from a dealer in Dartford, was used by the other two defendants in a burglary on a gated community in the province, the court was told.
Louis Ahearne, from Greenwich, Southeast London, and Stewart Ahearne and Kelly, both no fixed address, had refused the indictment against them.
They were taken into custody to be convicted by Judge Sarah Whitehouse KC in the Oude Bailey on 25 April.
Detective -head inspector Matt Webb, from Scotland Yard, said: 'This attack may seem like the plot to a Hollywood -Blockbuster, but the reality is something completely different. This was horrible crime. The court heard how this was a clear and defined attempt to take a man's life with those who were responsible for making significant efforts to ensure that this was successful.
“Daniel Kelly, Louis and Stewart Ahearne will now undoubtedly be confronted with a significant custody and I hope that this time with His Majesty's pleasure offers them the opportunity to think about their crime and the impact it has on society.”
