Museum burglars guilty of cage fighter murder plot

Three men from south-east London who burgled a museum in Switzerland have been found guilty of a plot to murder a cage fighter who was shot in his kitchen.
Paul Allen, 47, was paralysed after being shot in the neck at his home in Woodford Green, east London, on 11 July 2019. Prosecutors alleged the background to the shooting was that Allen was a “sophisticated” career criminal.
Following a five-week trial at the Old Bailey, Daniel Kelly, 46, and brothers Louis and Stewart Ahearne were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.
During the trial, jurors heard that a month before the shooting the Ahearne brothers and Kelly burgled Chinese Ming Dynasty artefacts from the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva.
Allen was convicted at Woolwich Crown Court in 2009 for his part in Britain’s biggest armed robbery, at Securitas in Tonbridge, Kent, in 2006 in which £54m in cash was stolen, much of which has never been recovered.

Courtesy: BBC