Paul Allen, 41, was paralysed for life after being hit by two bullets fired at his large detached rented home in Woodford Green, east London, in 2019.
He told jurors: ‘He 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.
The defendants travelled from their home turf in the Woolwich area of south-east London, through the Blackwall Tunnel to the victim’s new home in Malvern Drive as part of the planning and execution of the conspiracy, jurors were told.
Louis Ahearne, from Greenwich, south-east London, and Stewart Ahearne and Kelly, both of no fixed address, have denied conspiring to murder Allen between June 26 and July 12, 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.
