A GUNMAN who shot a gangster involved in Britain’s biggest robbery has reportedly been attacked in jail by another lag.
Daniel Kelly, 46, Louis Ahearne, 36, and brother Stewart, 46, left cage fighter Paul Allen paralysed in 2019.
PAGunman Daniel Kelly was sentenced to 36 years in jail for the shooting[/caption]
PAHe was one of three men arrested for the shooting of convicted robber Paul Allen[/caption]
Allen was shot in the throat through a kitchen window at a house he was renting from comedian Russell Kane in Woodford, East London.
Gunman Kelly, was jailed for 36 years while accomplices Louis and Stewart Ahearne got 33 and 30 respectively.
Now, Kelly has allegedly been ambushed by another prisoner who “tried to slit his throat”, a source has claimed.
A source told Sky News that Kelly was attacked by another prisoner who tried to slit his throat on his arrival to Frankland prison, in County Durham, last week.
“Danny is a gunman happy to shoot people but not scary with his hands. He’s a dead man walking in jail,” the source claimed to the outlet.
It is understood Kelly suffered only minor injuries and the Prison Service is treating the attack as a minor incident.
Allen, 47, had pocketed £1.9million from the £53million Securitas depot heist in Tonbridge, Kent, in 2006.
He was freed in 2016 after a decade in prison.
Allen had been released from prison and moved from south London to a large detached property in Woodford, north-east London, where he lived with his partner and young children in 2019.
Jurors were told in the days leading up to the shooting, a tracking device was put on a Mercedes car belonging to Allen.
Kelly and his accomplices followed his Mercedes before ambushing Allen at the property the next day.
Prosecutor Michael Shaw KC said it was clear from an examination of the scene of the shooting that the gunmen had positioned themselves at the rear of the property.
The trio then fired six shots from what appeared to be a Glock 9mm handgun.
The shots had been fired across the back garden of the house in Malvern Drive and passed through the kitchen and conservatory doors, with at least two rounds striking Allen in the hand and throat.
Old Bailey judge Sarah Whitehouse KC said other people were involved in the contract hit and that the three were “motivated by a promise of financial gain”.
She said of the attack: “Short of killing him it could hardly be more serious.”
Six weeks before the shooting, the trio, from South London, stole £2.8million of Ming dynasty treasures from a Geneva museum.
Kelly is also wanted in Japan for a £680,000 robbery of a jewellery store in Tokyo.
However, extradition proceedings have been put on hold while he serves his sentence.
The Ministry of Justice have been contacted for comment.
Central NewsAccomplice Louis Ahearne was sentenced to 33 years for his role in the crime[/caption]
Central NewsStewart Ahearne was handed a 30 year sentence at the Old Bailey[/caption] Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
