THREE men were yesterday jailed for a total of 99 years for shooting a gangster who took part in Britain’s biggest cash robbery.
Daniel Kelly, 46, Louis Ahearne, 36, and brother Stewart, 46, left .
He was through a kitchen window at a house he was renting from comedian in Woodford, East .
Old Bailey judge Sarah Whitehouse KC said other people were involved in the contract hit and that the three were “motivated by a promise of financial gain”;.
She said of the attack: “Short of killing him it could hardly be more serious.”;
Gunman Kelly, was jailed for 36 years while accomplices Louis and Stewart Ahearne got 33 and 30 respectively.
They were convicted of conspiracy to murder.
Six weeks before the shooting, the trio, from South London, stole £2.8million of from a Geneva museum.
Kelly is also wanted in for a £680,000 robbery.
Allen, 47 had pocketed £1.9million from the £53million Securitas depot heist in Tonbridge, , in 2006. He was freed in 2016.
