Daniel Kelly, 46, and the 46 -year -old Stewart brothers, and Louis Ahearne, 36, traveled from Dartford to Woodford Green in 2019 in a crime that the police said that the shelter a “Hollywood box office.”
Months before the three were involved in a museum robbery in Geneva, stealing a vase from the Ming dynasty for which they were extradited and tried in Switzerland.
After the shooting, they were sentenced at Old Bailey today (April 25) after being declared guilty of conspiracy to kill.
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On the night of the shooting, the three “hardened criminals” traveled from their homes in Southast London to Woodford Green using a car that had been hired two days before by Stewart Ahearne.
While waiting in the car in Worcester Avenue, Kelly and Louis Ahearne got into a garden of a house with a view to the rear garden of the house of their goal in Malvern Drive.
Around 11.09 pm, six shots were fired through the rear doors and windows of the house in Malvern Drive, at least of which he hit his 45 -year male goal in his kitchen.
Kelly and Ahearne fled back to the waiting car, who left, leaving their victim fighting for their life.
The Police and the London ambulance service attended. The victim was tasks for the hospital for surgery that saves lives that left him permanently paralyzed.
The detectives should be together what had happened and during the next week, several vital evident advances in the place of Toks.
The DNA was tasks of an area close to the next one for the property in Worcester Avenue, where the two suspects had fired the shots. This DNA coincided with Kelly and Louis Ahearne.
The bullet covers found in the garden, and the bullets that are within the direction that had lost their goal allowed detective to establish the firearm used was a Gock SLP gun.
A search in the Kelly direction carried out at the end of August 2019 recovered a laser view that was compatible with this weapon.
The CCTV analysis of the area surrounding Malvern Drive collected the car driven by Stewart Ahearne.
This provided a registration number of vehicles that the detectives used to confirm that this was a rental car, and the rental company was able to confirm the details of Stewart Ahearne as the rear of the vehicle.
Using several techniques, including the ANPR and CCTV cameras, the detectives rebuilt the automobile movements after it was hired on July 9, 2019 in Dartford.
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Subsequently, the detectives established that the car had used the leg to commit a theft in a direction in severe, Kent, that same night.
It was confirmed that the car had traveled from southeast London, where the three suspects were based, in the Woodford Green area, both July 10 and 11 before the shooting.
On July 10, the defendants undertook a trip that tracked a car that is known to be used by the victim.
The court heard how the defendants had equipped a tracking device to the victim’s vehicle.
Using an iPad, which was subsequently thrown into the Thames river, but then recovered by the officers, to trace the movements of the car, the suspects now knew when and where its goal would be.
The detectives also used telephone data of devices attributed to Kelly and the Ahearnes to help track their movement before and after the shooting.
Marrying this with images of the ANPR and CCTV camera, they could assign the rental car after the victim’s car before the shooting.
After the shooting, Stewart Ahearne returned the car to the rental company on July 12.
I only thought that he was subsidized, by July 17, the officers had established that he had the leg used by the suspects and tracked it to the Birmingham airport.
The car was analyzed Forensus and Kelly’s digital footprints were found in two places in the vehicle.
By October 2019, detectives were in a position to start judging.
Between October 30, 2019 and January 23, 2020, the three suspects were arrested.
Everyone denied their participation, but the evidence that the detectives had diligently compiled that the three were accused.
The detectives continued following all the lines of research and reconstructing the movements of Kelly and Ahearnes an iPad used by Kelly to track the victim’s movements recovered from the Thames river in 2024.
Duration The intermediate period, the research team with the investigation worked as part of a joint investigation with equipment for application of the Switzerland law.
A theft of the Museum of Arts of the East had occurred in Geneva a month before this shooting with articles of historical value.
The court heard how the elements of that offensive echoed this shooting, including the use of a Renault Captur rental vehicle.
The London research team recovered a Ming dynasty vase in the robbery in London in October 2020.
Stewart and Louis Ahearne were extradited to Switzerland, were tried and were convicted in January 2024.
Subsequently, both were returned to the United Kingdom in extradition to be judged by this incident.
The Superintendent of Detectives Matt Webb, who directed the investigation, said: “The court heard how the defendants, hardened organized criminals, acted together in a well planned and orchestrated way to shoot his victim.
“It is only for the intervention of the first police response and the medical professionals that the victim was not killed.
“This attack may seem the plot for a Hollywood box office success, but reality is something quite different.
“This was a horrible crime. The court heard how this was a clear and defined attempt to take a man’s life with those response making efforts significantly to ensure that this was successful.
“This conviction continues several years of investigation, I would like to thank our criminal justice partners and the investigation team for their diligence and tenacity in the attempt to take those responsible to justice.
“The message here for those who participate in serious and organized crimes is one that I want to clarify very clearly: the Metropolitan Police will not tolerate serious violence and the use of firearms in our communities; we will not leave stone without removing to take it before justice.
“Daniel Kelly, Louis and Stewart Ahearne will now face significant custody sentences and I hope that this time in the pleasure of their Majesty gives them the opportunity to reflect on their crime and the impact it has on society.”
