WOULD-BE ROBBER WINSTON WILLIAMS, WHOSE PLOT TO SN

WOULD-BE ROBBER WINSTON WILLIAMS, WHOSE PLOT TO SNATCH
SUPERMARKET TAKINGS FROM SECURITY MEN FAILED, WAS JAILED FOR SIX YEARS
AT THE OLD BAILEY ON TUESDAY.

SENTENCING WILLIAMS, AGED 44, JUDGE NINA LOWRY SAID: ‘YOU
PLANNED A ROBBERY, YOU LEARNED ABOUT THE TIME WHEN THE SECURITY MEN
WERE VUNERABLE, AND I HAVE NO DOUBT YOU HOPED THEY WOULD HAVE A
SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF MONEY’.

WILLIAMS’ PLANS WERE RUINED WHEN SECURITY EXPRESS MEN ARRIVED
AN HOUR LATE TO COLLECT A DELIVERY FROM THE SHOPPERS PARADISE
SUPERMARKET IN FURZEDOWN DRIVE LANE, TOOTING, LAST DECEMBER.

AS WILLIAMS ANXIOUSLY WAITED FOR THE GUARDS TO ARRIVE HIS
FURTIVE MOVEMENTS WERE NOTICED BY A LOCAL RESIDENT.

SHE CALLED
POLICE, SAID MR ANTHONY LONGDEN, PROSECUTING.

WILLIAMS AND HIS ACCOMPLICE WERE WATCHED BY POLICE UNTIL THEY
ABANDONED THEIR PLAN AND WALKED AWAY.

THERE WAS A CHASE AND WILLIAMS WAS CAPTURED BUT HIS PARTNER
ESCAPED AND HAS NEVER BEEN CAUGHT.

WILLIAMS’ ABANDONED JACKET, HAT AND A .

22 CALIBRE PISTOL WERE
FOUND THE NEXT DAY WITH THE AID OF SNIFFER DOGS IN NEARBY GRACEDALE
ROAD.

BUT HE INSISTED HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PLOT AND CLAIMED
HE WAS ONLY VISITING A FRIEND IN THE AREA.

THE JURY FOUND WILLIAMS, UNEMPLOYED OF LESSINGHAM AVENUE,
TOOTING, GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY TO ROB.

THEY WERE DISCHARGED
BY THE JUDGE FROM GIVING VERDICTS ON FIREARMS CHARGES.

ENDS.

NOTE: THE OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE CASE ASKED THAT THE NAME OF THE
LOCAL RESIDENT – SYBIL SIMMS – NOT BE USED.

SHE HAS SEEN HER NAME
MENTIONED IN PREVIOUS COPY AND FEARS REPRISALS.

(SEE PREVIOUS COPY OF NOVEMBER 10, 1986)

ENDS NOTE.

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