TWO UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS MET AT AN ILFORD JOB CENTRE

TWO UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS MET AT AN ILFORD JOB CENTRE AND PLOTTED
A BUILDING SOCIETY ROBBERY, A COURT HEARD.

AT THEIR MEETING IN THE ILFORD LANE JOB CENTRE TERRY GOSS, 19,
AND PAUL WHEATLAND, 20, DECIDED UPON THE ABBEY NATIONAL IN CLEMENTS
ROAD, ILFORD, SAID MR MICHAEL LAWSON, PROSECUTING AT THE OLD BAILEY.

WEARING STOCKING MASKS GOSS WENT TO THE COUNTER WITH A CARRIER
BAG WHILE WHEATLAND STOOD BACK AIMING A REVOLVER AT STAFF.

THE MANAGER MADE THE DECIDED TO HAND OVER THE MONEY FROM A
TILL -#1,188 BECAUSE THE TWO YOUTHS WERE GETTING ‘AGITATED’.

THEY RAN OFF DOWN THE STREET AND DISAPPEARED.

WITNESSESHAD SEEN THE YOUTHS ‘LOTERING’ BY THE POST OFFICE
JUST BEFORE THE ROBBERY ON 15 MARCH 85 AND MINUTES BEFORE THE EVENT
THEY WERE SPOTTED PUTING ON THEIR MASKS AND PULLING OUT THE
‘REALISTIC’ HAND GUN, CONTINUED COUNSEL.

THEY WERE NOT ARRESTRED UNTIL INFORMATION LED POLICE TO GOSS
IN JANUARYTHIS YEAR.

HE IMMEDIATELY CONFESSED TO THE ROBBERY AND FOUR DAYS LATER
WHEATLAND WAS ARRESTED.

GOSS TOLD POLICE HE GOT TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT CENTRE AND
WHEATLAND HAD MENTIONED THE IDEA.

THEY DECIDED THE ABBY NATIONAL WAS
THE EASIEST TO DO.

A SHOP IN GREEN LANE HAD BEEN ABANDONED BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE
AROUND.

GOSS, OF UPLANDS ROAD, ILFORD, AND WHEATLAND, OF ELGIN ROAD
SEVEN KINGS,