Terry Smith armed pirate incited TV crime expert is jailed

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A man who claimed to have incited his behind on crime and wrote a book about his former hold up as an armed pirate has been locked up for robbing security guards stuffing money machines.

Terry Smith, 51, billed himself as a "robbologist", advising on TV crime programmes, and his book The Art of Armed Robbery was promoted as the loyal story of Britains majority barbarous armed robber, who had motionless to remodel for the consequence of himself and his immature family.

Yesterday he was found guilty at Chelmsford Crown Court of conspiring to rob and conspiring to retain firearms with vigilant to rob.

The charge pronounced that Smith and his hermit Len, 52, had been concerned in attacks on guards delivering money to machines in East London and Essex in between 2006 and 2008.

Len was found not guilty of the charges.

Detectives estimated that �250,000 was stolen. During one raid, in Rayleigh, a commuter, Adam Mapleson, was shot and injured.

Terry Smith, of Canvey Island, Essex, was arrested after an review by the British Transport Police. He told them that he was right away a reformed character. Detectives pronounced that Smith had appeared on Channel 4, the BBC and acted as a technical confidant on a film.

Yesterday Smith was since an indistinct jail sentence, the decider observant that he should offer twelve years prior to being deliberate for parole.

Later, Detective Superintendent Michael Field, who had headed the inquiry, pronounced that Terry Smiths self-assurance was welcome: This is a man who has formerly touted himself to the media and to the open as a reformed career rapist who had seen the light, Mr Field.

What we right away know is that he is anything but reformed. He is a violent, asocial particular with no courtesy for the law who was rebuilt to go to frightening ends to safeguard his final were met.

Last year at a hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court Brian Wall was since an indistinct judgment after being found guilty of causing Mr Mapleson disgusting corporeal mistreat with intent. Wall was additionally convicted of swindling to retain firearms with vigilant to dedicate an corruption and swindling to rob. He had philosophy for spoliation dating behind to 1978, the justice was told. Mr Mapleson was hire with his hands up when Wall non-stop fire, the justice was told. Mr Mapleson, who was twenty-four when he was shot, told the justice he attempted to assistance a security ensure after she was attacked whilst stuffing a money appurtenance outward Rayleigh railway hire in 2007.