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Noel Cunningham
Arrested: Noel Cunningham

Scotland Yard's 'most wanted' is arrested

9 Sep 2009


One of Scotland Yard's most wanted men who was freed when a police van was ambushed in Brixton in 2003 has been arrested.

Noel Cunningham escaped from the prison van while on his way to court to face charges over a failed security van raid.

He is believed to have been arrested in Holland.
Cunningham was being taken from Brixton Prison to the court when the van was ambushed by two armed men, who shot one prison guard and pistol whipped another.

Cunningham was sprung from custody along with Clifford Hobbs on June 10, 2003.

The driver of the van was shot in the leg and a guard beaten about the head during the escape.

Hobbs stayed with friends in south London before fleeing on a fake passport to France, Portugal and eventually Malaga in Spain.

He was arrested and extradited to the UK in 2007. Hobbs was jailed for life in February last year after he admitted organising an "inside job" on the security van in March 2003.

Officers, who had been tipped off about the raid, moved in as the van made a pick-up from a cafe in Effra Road, Brixton.

 

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