Wednesday - August 27, 2008

Organised crime gang stopped when ringleader shot.  (Graveyard Dead! )

So now there’s two less gremlins here on our doorstep in the country of Hampshire,England. Score one for the good guys. Wish they could have taken out the
all the other rotters as well but hey, two is good.  I’m happy with that.

Kudos Cops. Well done.

Organised crime gang which stole £500,000 stopped when ringleader shot
A organised crime gang which made half a million pounds in a series of armed robberies was stopped in its tracks after the mastermind was shot dead by police, a court heard.

A organised crime gang which made half a million pounds in a series of armed robberies was stopped in its tracks after the mastermind was shot dead by police, a court heard.
By Aislinn Simpson
Last Updated: 1:09AM BST 27 Aug 2008

The gang carried out detailed reconnaissance trips and used stolen cars to target cash in transit vans outside banks in at least 18 robberies across the south of England, Kingston Crown Court heard.

Its 18-month crime spree was brought to an end in September last year when armed police shot dead two of its number, including boss Mark Nunes, 35, after lying in wait outside a bank in Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire.
The getaway driver, Terrence Wallace, 26, was arrested later that day after fleeing the scene, the court heard.

Wallace and three other alleged members of the gang, Victor Iniodu, 34, Leroy Wilkinson, 29, and Adrian Johnson, 28, from London, all deny conspiracy to rob.

Brendan Kelly, opening the case for the prosecution, said: “This case concerns robberies, sometimes armed, sometimes not, that targeted the carriers of cash in transit, that is guards employed to move money to and from banks and all other retail outlets.

“Over an 18-month period of time, this gang netted in excess of £500,000.”

The court was told Nunes recruited gang members and selected the targets but also joined in on the robberies.

Mr Kelly said: “Despite their skills, their planning and to a degree, their patience, their luck ran out.”

The Metropolitan Police managed to identify at least some of the culprits and they were followed.

Nunes and accomplice Andrew Markland, 36, were under surveillance as they drove to Chandler’s Ford, a small town in Hampshire on September 13.

“Again their victim was a Group 4 Security guard but this time there was a difference,” Mr Kelly said.

“Armed police officers both undercover and secluded in various buildings in the vicinity of the HSBC bank were watching.

“They saw Nunes point a loaded firearm at the head of the guard and as he did so, he was shot dead to protect the life of the guard.

“As Markland went to pick up the gun, he too was shot dead.”

Wallace, of Raynes Park, Wilkinson, of 3 Presentation Mews, 42 Palace Road, Streatham, Johnson, of 79 Abbotts Place, Streatham Hill, and Iniodu, of 297 Derinton Road, Tooting, all deny conspiracy to rob cash in transit between April 27 2006 and September 14 2007.

The trial continues. 

(Trial? What is there to try? Just rid society of the company and save the money. Trial. Jeesch)

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