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One of Britains majority longed for men who was on the run for 6 years after journey during an armed waylay on a jail outpost was locked up for eighteen years today.
Fugitive Noel Cunningham, 48, was the think in a unsuccessful �1 million security outpost heist when he transient in Jun 2003 after dual armed men hijacked the jail outpost receiving him to court.
Jailing him today, decider Charles Byers told Woolwich Crown Court in easterly London that Cunningham was a dangerous man whose crimes repelled society.
Cunningham became one of Britains majority longed for men as he was smuggled out of the nation and lived underneath a fibre of insincere identities in Holland until he was arrested in Sep last year.
Cunningham and an additional man, Clifford Hobbs, were confronting charges of swindling to rob over the unsuccessful security outpost raid, the justice was told.
But on Jun 10, 2003, dual armed menone ready to go as a postman, the alternative wearing a balaclavahijacked the jail outpost receiving him and others to Inner London Crown Court in a planned, well-thought out and well-executed corner enterprise.
The jurors, who were screened from the open art studio among parsimonious security, listened motorist Neil Chetty was shot in the leg and a second ensure was pistol-whipped as the men demanded the dual cell doors inside the outpost be opened.
But Cunningham told the justice he did not know the men who liberated him, but simply seized his event to escape.
After using to a circuitously park, he went to a cafeteria in Bermondsey, south-east London, where he bumped in to a crony of a crony carrying breakfast.
He asked him to hit their mutual acquaintance, declared in justice as Steven Jackson, who organised for him to stay at his home in Lewisham, south London.
After 6 weeks, his crony helped him get 4 passports and organised for him to be smuggled in a truck to Belgium, from where he went to Holland, Cunningham claimed.
Earlier, Mark Gadsden, for the prosecution, pronounced Cunningham and Hobbs, who was additionally locked up for eighteen years at a prior hearing, were held red-handed in the unsuccessful raid on a money movement outpost in Mar 2003.
The plan concerned the make use of a stolen BMW propitious with fake series plates purebred to the City of London Police in sequence to forestall guess when parked nearby the money van, Mr Gadsden said.
This was the undiluted vehicle, he said, since if military beheld dual rugged men inside and checked the plates they would see the registration sum and pretence it was a military operation.
Cunningham was the motorist whilst Hobbs wore a black coupler with a Securicor trademark and put on a black steel sheet as he approached the behind of the outpost in Effra Road, Brixton, the justice was told.
An inside man left the doorway so it could be opened, Mr Gadsden said.
But the warning went off and the dual men ran afar prior to being held and arrested by police.
If they had succeeded, the esteem would have been �900,000 in money in the outpost and cheques bringing the sum worth to around �1 million, Mr Gadsden said.
Cunningham, before of Greenland Quay, Rotherhithe, south-east London, was found guilty last month of carrying a firearm with vigilant to escape, receive of a firearm with vigilant to means fright of assault and wounding with vigilant to conflict official apprehension.
He had formerly pleaded guilty to a assign of swindling to steal.
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