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<\/p>\nThree London thieves have been jailed for plotting to murder cage fighter Paul Allen, who was left paralysed after being shot at his luxury home in 2019.<\/p>\n
Brothers Louis and Stewart Ahearne, along with Daniel Kelly, were found guilty of conspiracy to murder following a trial at the Old Bailey.<\/p>\n
The judge said the “underlying motive for the shooting remains unknown”.<\/p>\n
Louis Ahearne, 36, was sentenced to 33 years in prison, his older brother Stewart Ahearne, 46, received a 30-year sentence, and Kelly, 46, was given the longest term of 36 years plus an extra five years on licence.<\/p>\n
Brothers Louis and Stewart Ahearne, along with Daniel Kelly, were found guilty of conspiracy to murder following a trial at the Old Bailey<\/p>\n
MET POLICE<\/p>\n
Judge Sarah Whitehouse KC said she was satisfied Kelly pulled the trigger but concluded that a life sentence for him was “not justified”.<\/p>\n
In July 2019, the trio travelled multiple times from Woolwich in south-east London to Allen’s home in Woodford Green to plan and execute the murder plot.<\/p>\n
A tracking device was placed on Allen’s Mercedes car.<\/p>\n
The gang used unregistered pay-as-you-go phones to communicate with each other.<\/p>\n
MORE LIKE THIS:<\/strong><\/p>\n Stewart Ahearne rented a vehicle which was used to follow Allen’s Mercedes around east London the day before the shooting.<\/p>\n Prosecutors said the gunmen positioned themselves at the rear of Allen’s property and fired six shots from what appeared to be a Glock 9mm handgun.<\/p>\n The shots passed through the kitchen and conservatory doors, with at least two rounds striking Allen in the hand and throat.<\/p>\n Kelly’s and Louis Ahearne’s DNA was found on a garden fence panel near where five bullet casings were discovered and a gun sight was later found at Kelly’s home in Charlton.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Louis Ahearne told the court he became involved in the Geneva museum heist to pay off a debt he owed to Kelly. He claimed he believed he was at Allen’s house to commit a burglary or robbery of a drug dealer’s home.<\/p>\n Allen was convicted at Woolwich Crown Court in 2009 for his part in Britain’s biggest armed robbery- a \u00a354million cash heist which took place at Securitas in Tonbridge, Kent, in 2006.<\/p>\n The shots passed through the kitchen and conservatory doors, with at least two rounds striking Allen in the hand and throat<\/p>\n MET POLICE<\/p>\n Much of the stolen money has never been recovered.<\/p>\n By 2019, Allen had been released from prison and moved to a large detached property in Woodford, north-east London, where he lived with his partner and young children.<\/p>\n Kelly is reportedly also one of three men wanted by Japanese authorities as part of a landmark extradition request.<\/p>\n Japanese police accuse Kelly and two others of stealing items worth \u00a3679,000 from a Harry Winston store in 2015.<\/p>\n The trio allegedly punched a security guard, smashed glass cabinets and seized 46 items, including diamond rings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three London thieves have been jailed for plotting to murder cage fighter Paul Allen, who was left paralysed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,12,1144,712,512,16,1259,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-52247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-sgg","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-uk-news","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114404580077683207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Shots](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/shots-in-door.png\")