{"id":1346,"date":"2014-03-05T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2014-03-05T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:00:06","slug":"whitechapel-money-transfer-robbery-gang-get-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/whitechapel-money-transfer-robbery-gang-get-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitechapel money transfer robbery gang get 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/London-Money.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1347\" alt=\"London-Money\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/London-Money.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Four men who snatched \u00a3340,000 in violent hold-ups in London\u2019s East End have been jailed for a total of more than 30 years.<br \/>\nThey were caught on a security camera during one robbery outside a bank in Whitechapel.<br \/>\nIt led to Flying Squad detectives tracking down the gang which had carried out two heists against the same money transfer shop in Whitechapel Road in just 10 months.<br \/>\nThe gang targeted staff moving cash from the premises to the bank.<br \/>\nThe first heist was in 2011 when they followed the manager\u2019s car six miles to his home in Manor Park where they grabbed money bags from the boot.<br \/>\nThe same money transfer shop was targeted again 10 months later in 2012, when an employee was punched and kicked on his way to a bank in Whitechapel Road and robbed of \u00a330,000 he was carrying in a money bag.<br \/>\nBut this time the incident was caught on CCTV which led to the gang being identified.<br \/>\nDet Sgt Holly Simon from the Met\u2019s Flying Squad said after Friday\u2019s sentences at the Old Bailey: \u201cThis was a terrifying act by a very calculated group of men who used violence to steal from a small business.\u201d<br \/>\nTwo gang members from Mile End got 18 years between them. Akhbar Hussain, 40, from Stileman House in Ackroid Drive, off Burdett Road, was jailed for six years, while Shetu Meah, 31, from Colmar Close off Alderney Road, got 12 years.<br \/>\nAbdion Hassan, 23, from Walthamstow, was sentenced to nine years and Vinton Meade, 29, from Clapton, got five years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/whitechapel-money-transfer-robbery-gang-get-30-years\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four men who snatched \u00a3340,000 in violent hold-ups in London\u2019s East End have been jailed for a total of more than 30 years. 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