Six men behind a awell designed and sophisticateda robbery at a Bromwich bank were today beginning a mixed jail term of almost 60 years. Prime l to r: Ashley Douglas, Shakeel Rafiq, Akim Lyazi Base l to r: Ibrahim Lyazi, Mohammed Masud, Jamal Mahmood Three stormed the Co-op lender, High Street, at starting time, threatened two female team with batons and left in a car driven by way of a fourth member with A130,000. Two the others organised the raid a' but used a gym at the M5 junction one, West Bromwich, as a watch and to provide an alibi if captured. After a seven-week trial, all six were convicted of conspiracy to rob by way of a Warwickshire Crown Court jury in January. At Birmingham Crown Court, Judge Simon Drew QC gave Shakeel Rafiq, aged 31, of Roebuck Lane, West Bromwich to a decade and said he was an aorchestrator.a He got details about the bank while in a relationship with bank employee Natalie Mashhadi a present at the department during the attack. He and Mohammed Masud, 30, of Roebuck Lane, West Bromwich, Rafiq recruited a London group for the raid a later spending them A40,000 from the stolen cash. Masud got five years. The staff were Ashley Douglas, 29, of Lambeth, twins Ibrahim and Akim Lyazi, 19, of Tooting, and Jamal Mahmood, 23, of Wandsworth. Douglas got a 12-year sentence. The others got five. All the men refused conspiracy to rob but conspiracy was admitted by five, excluding Masud, to steal. They said Ms Mashhadi and other robbery target Rebecca Maxam were part of the piece a' but jurors deemed the raid to become a robbery. Judge Drew said: aMr Rafiq found out about the one branch and how the branch was obviously vulnerable to assault a' he played a key part and it seems to me that he was central to the master plan. aThis was a planned and professionally executed program. This case involved a serious breach of confidence involving inside information with a bank employee. The other target was a susceptible person, a lady opening up a and surrounded by those involved in the operation.a The court found CCTV footage of the Lyazi friends and Douglas, with faces lined, enter as the bank opened on Saturday, November 26, 2011. Women were seen being selected and pushed in to the back. They certainly were then told at hand over keys for the strongroom where money was kept. Banknotes were stuffed into holdalls before the three got into a BMW influenced by Mahmood. Five were caught in subsequent days. Ibrahim Lyazi fled as police arrived but dropped a bag with A40,000, making records spread next door. He was eventually arrested in June. Afterwards Chief Inspector Paul Bett said: shock welcome the sentences and desire it sends out an obvious meaning. If individuals commit violent criminal acts we are willed by us follow them and bring them prior to the courts.a The financial institution today accepted the phrase. The sentences are welcomed by a statement said: "We provided at Birmingham Crown Court this week following an incident at our former department in West Bromwich. "Whilst we're not able to reveal specific details, safety and the welfare of our colleagues are of the most importance to us, and we hold all such measures under regular review to safeguard colleagues at all times"
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