Prosecutor Michael Shaw told jurors on Wednesday that Allen is a career criminal and “a very sophisticated criminal at that” who was “convicted a number of years ago at Woolwich Crown Court for his part in what was then – and still is – Britain’s biggest armed robbery, at Securitas Express in Kent, in which £54 million in cash was stolen, much of which is outstanding.
Paul Allen, then 41, was paralysed for life after shots were fired at his large detached rented home in Woodford Green, east London, in 2019.
“They were fired at a man called Paul Allen as he stood in the kitchen at the back of a large detached house in Malvern Drive in Woodford, east London.
Three men, Louis Ahearne, 36, his brother Stewart Ahearne, 46, and Daniel Kelly, 46, are now on trial, accused of plotting Allen’s murder.
Mr Shaw added: “The reason they hit him in the throat was they had a particularly effective sight fitted to the Glock, the sort of sight found at Daniel Kelly’s address one month later.”.
