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Trio jailed over plot to murder £54m Securitas raider
Three men who plotted to murder a member of a gang that carried out Britain's biggest ever cash robbery were jailed for a total of 99 years.
Paul Allen, 46, was ...shot twice as he stood in his kitchen in Woodford, east London, on 11 July 2019.
Mr Allen was a member of the Securitas heist gang that stole £54m from a cash depot in Tonbridge, Kent, in 2006.
The former cage fighter was living in a large detached rented house with his partner and three young children after being released from an 18-year prison sentence over the raid.
The attack left him paralysed from the chest down.
Louis Ahearne, 36, Stewart Ahearne, 46, and Daniel Kelly, 46, denied conspiring to murder Allen but were found guilty following a trial at the Old Bailey.
Kelly was handed an extended sentenced comprising 36 years in prison and an extra five years on licence after the judge ruled he posed a danger to the public.
He must serve two-thirds of the custodial term before he can be considered for release on licence by the parole board. Offenders are usually released automatically after serving half their jail sentence.
Louis Ahearne was jailed for 33 years, and his sibling Stewart Ahearne for 30 years.
Judge Sarah Whitehouse KC, said: "I have no doubt that this agreement to murder Paul Allen involved other people apart from the three of you and that you three were motivated by a promise of financial gain.
"The culpability of each one of you is very high.
"The harm caused to the victim was very serious - indeed, short of killing him it could hardly be more serious. He is currently paralysed and relies on others for every single need."
The shooting was just the latest act in a long list of criminal deeds. The day before, Kelly and Louise Ahearne used a rented car to carry out a burglary in Kent, accessing the gated community by pretending to be police officers.
A month before that, the trio had stolen more than $3.5m (£2.78m) worth of Ming dynasty antiques from the Museum of Far Eastern Arts in Geneva, for which the Ahearne brothers had been jailed in Switzerland.
Kelly is also wanted in Japan over the robbery of a Tokyo jewellery store in 2015 in which a security guard was punched in the face.
Trio jailed over plot to murder £54m Securitas raider
Three men who plotted to murder a member of a gang that carried out ...
Three men who plotted to murder a member of a gang that carried out Britain's biggest ever cash robbery were jailed for a total of 99 years.
Paul Allen, 46, was ...shot twice as he stood in his kitchen in Woodford, east London, on 11 July 2019.
Mr Allen was a member of the Securitas heist gang that stole £54m from a cash depot in Tonbridge, Kent, in 2006.
The former cage fighter was living in a large detached rented house with his partner and three young children after being released from an 18-year prison sentence over the raid.
The attack left him paralysed from the chest down.
Louis Ahearne, 36, Stewart Ahearne, 46, and Daniel Kelly, 46, denied conspiring to murder Allen but were found guilty following a trial at the Old Bailey.
Kelly was handed an extended sentenced comprising 36 years in prison and an extra five years on licence after the judge ruled he posed a danger to the public.
He must serve two-thirds of the custodial term before he can be considered for release on licence by the parole board. Offenders are usually released automatically after serving half their jail sentence.
Louis Ahearne was jailed for 33 years, and his sibling Stewart Ahearne for 30 years.
Judge Sarah Whitehouse KC, said: "I have no doubt that this agreement to murder Paul Allen involved other people apart from the three of you and that you three were motivated by a promise of financial gain.
"The culpability of each one of you is very high.
"The harm caused to the victim was very serious - indeed, short of killing him it could hardly be more serious. He is currently paralysed and relies on others for every single need."
The shooting was just the latest act in a long list of criminal deeds. The day before, Kelly and Louise Ahearne used a rented car to carry out a burglary in Kent, accessing the gated community by pretending to be police officers.
A month before that, the trio had stolen more than $3.5m (£2.78m) worth of Ming dynasty antiques from the Museum of Far Eastern Arts in Geneva, for which the Ahearne brothers had been jailed in Switzerland.
Kelly is also wanted in Japan over the robbery of a Tokyo jewellery store in 2015 in which a security guard was punched in the face.
IN FULL: Instructor jailed over paddleboard tour deaths
A former paddleboard company owner was jailed for 10-and-a-half years ...
A former paddleboard company owner was jailed for 10-and-a-half years over the deaths of four people who died during one of her tours.
Former police officer Nerys Lloyd, 39, pleaded guilty ...to four counts of gross negligence manslaughter and one offence under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
Paul O'Dwyer, 42, Andrea Powell, 41, Morgan Rogers, 24, and Nicola Wheatley, 40, died after they got into difficulty in the River Cleddau, Pembrokeshire, on 30 October 2021.
The four had been part of a stand-up paddleboarding tour when their paddleboards went over a weir in Haverfordwest, during "extremely hazardous conditions".
Co-instructor Mr O'Dwyer initially exited the water but re-entered the river in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the others.
Ms Powell was taken to Withybush Hospital where she died of her injuries six days later.
The tour had been organised by Lloyd, owner and sole director of Salty Dog Co Ltd.
An expert later concluded the tour should not have taken place.
Sentencing Lloyd at Swansea Crown Court, Mrs Justice Stacey told Lloyd the weir presented an "obvious and extreme danger" and that she "showed a blatant disregard" for the risk of loss of life.
"This was not a momentary lapse, your whole approach to health and safety was lax," she said.
The judge said there were Met Office weather warnings in place at that time, as well as a flood alert issued through Natural Resources Wales.
She said the footage of the incident was "too distressing to be shown in court".
"Having studied it, I am sure that you made no attempt to investigate or paddle to the steps which were visible from the river," she said.
The judge said she was certain that neither Lloyd nor Mr O'Dwyer intended "any harm to any of the participants" but that the defendant's "whole approach to basic health and safety was abysmal".
Tommy Robinson loses appeal over contempt of court jail term
Tommy Robinson lost a Court of Appeal challenge against the length of ...
Tommy Robinson lost a Court of Appeal challenge against the length of his prison sentence for contempt of court.
The far-right political activist, 42, was jailed for 18 months in October ...2024 after admitting breaching a 2021 High Court order banning him from repeating false allegations against a Syrian refugee who successfully sued him for libel.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was told his sentence would be shortened by four months if he "purged" the contempt by removing the claims from his social media accounts.
His lawyer Alisdair Williamson KC told judges Robinson has suffered an "evident decline in his mental health" after being held in segregation at Woodhill prison in Milton Keynes.
"He is being kept safe by the authorities in segregation, but being kept safe is making him ill," he said.
The court heard Robinson is suffering from complex PTSD and has been diagnosed with ADHD, and his barrister said his prison conditions mean he can't "regulate his emotions".
His phone contact has been restricted "because of the way he conducted himself on the telephone" on two occasions, the court heard.
Aidan Eardley KC, for the Solicitor General, said it was "in his gift" for Robinson to shorten his own sentence by removing the film from social media and preventing its dissemination.
If he did, his release date would be brought forward.
But Mr Eardley said Robinson "remains defiantly in breach" of the order with further publication of his film occurring "every time it is viewed" and is asking for an "indulgence".
The Lady Chief Justice, Baroness Carr, sitting with Lord Justice Edis and Lord Justice Warby, dismissed Robinson's appeal in a written 15-page ruling, following a hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London.
A summary of their judgment said they did not find Robinson's prison conditions were "harsher or more onerous" than sentencing judge Mr Justice Johnson had foreseen at the time.
"The appellant had in fact been able to associate with others by email, by telephone, and in person, to a considerable extent," it said.
They also said the medical evidence "did not show either a significant exacerbation of a known medical condition or a material new factor".
A spokesperson for the Attorney General's Office said: "Stephen Yaxley-Lennon repeatedly ignored judges' orders and continued to spread libellous allegations.
"His 18-month sentence reflected how gravely the court considers contempt."
'Life at stake' in Duke of Sussex security challenge, court is told
Prince Harry's "safety, security and life" are at stake in his legal ...
Prince Harry's "safety, security and life" are at stake in his legal challenge to the level of security he receives in the UK, a court was told.
The Duke of Sussex, ...40, lost a previous challenge in February 2024 against a decision to remove his right to automatic high-level police protection after he quit as a senior royal in 2020.
Speaking at the conclusion of a two-day hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London, his barrister Shaheed Fatima KC said: "One mustn't forget the human dimension to this case. There is a person sitting behind me whose safety, whose security, whose life is at stake.
"There is a person sitting behind me who is being told he's getting a special bespoke process when he knows and has experience a process that is manifestly inferior in every respect."
Sir James Eadie KC, representing the Home Office, said experts, including the chair of Ravec and the chair of the risk management board (RMB), had decided Harry's "unique circumstances" required a "bespoke approach".
The prince would be "better served" by this approach and the decision did not mean "personal security of the kind previously provided would under no circumstances be provided", he told the court.
The decision of the court will be delivered in writing at a later date.
Prince Harry security arrangements are lawful, say government lawyers
Bespoke security arrangements put in place for the Duke of Sussex are ...
Bespoke security arrangements put in place for the Duke of Sussex are not unlawful, government lawyers told the Court of Appeal.
Sir James Eadie KC, representing the Home Office, said the ...Prince's challenge should be refused.
"The appeal is fairly to be characterised in the same way (as the earlier ruling)," Eadie said.
"It involves a continued failure to see the wood for the trees, advancing propositions available only by reading small parts of the evidence, and now the judgment, out of context and ignoring the totality of the picture."
Eadie stressed that Harry's security had not been entirely removed.
Rather, he said protection is now determined on a case-by-case basis, reflecting both Harry's status as a non-working royal and his residence abroad.
"We are in territory in which there are no right or wrong answers," he told the court.
"There are matters of judgment against broad, soft-edged criteria… in which the security expertise of those involved is likely to be critical."
Duke of Sussex 'singled out' over security treatment, appeal judges told
The Duke of Sussex has been "singled out" for "inferior treatment", ...
The Duke of Sussex has been "singled out" for "inferior treatment", his lawyers told the Court of Appeal as part of a challenge to the level of security he gets ...in the UK.
Prince Harry, 40, previously lost a legal challenge against the government's decision to remove his right to automatic police protection when he is in Britain.
The two-day appeal hinged on a decision taken by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) in February 2020 after Harry and Meghan stopped working as senior royals and went to Canada.
Harry's barrister Shaheed Fatima KC said Ravec did not get an assessment from an expert specialist body called the risk management board (RMB) and instead followed a "bespoke" process.
"(He) does not accept that 'bespoke' means 'better'. In fact, in his submission, it means that he has been singled out for different, unjustified and inferior treatment," she said.
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