Paul Allen was previously involved in the 2006 Securitas Depot robbery, Britain’s biggest ever cash heist.

After serving time, Allen returned to South London and was believed to be keeping a low profile.

He was previously targeted in a shooting in Woolwich in 2018, outside his home while with his pregnant daughter.

On the night of 11 July 2019, he was shot six times while making tea in his kitchen.

One bullet severed a finger, another went through his throat and lodged in his spine, leaving him paralysed from the chest down.

Attackers were Daniel Kelly and Lewis Ahearne; Stuart Ahearne waited nearby in a getaway car.

Just days before the shooting, the same men burgled a gated development in Sevenoaks using fake police uniforms.

Weeks earlier, they broke into the Baur Foundation museum in Geneva and stole Ming Dynasty artefacts worth £2.8 million.

The gang was also linked to a 2015 Harry Winston robbery in Tokyo — Daniel Kelly remains wanted in Japan.

After the shooting, one of the attackers threw an iPad Mini into the River Thames near North Greenwich.

Five years later, police recovered the iPad with its SIM card intact — it contained tracking data, burner phone logs, and links to the Geneva heist.

This evidence finally linked the shooting, burglaries, and international thefts into one case.

The Ahearne brothers were extradited to Switzerland in 2023 and sentenced for the museum burglary before returning to the UK for trial.

All three men were convicted of conspiracy to murder in March 2025 at the Old Bailey.

Sentences: Daniel Kelly — 36 years; Lewis Ahearne — 33 years; Stuart Ahearne — 30 years.