The London Electricity Board Robbery
The robbery for which Davis was convicted was very aggravated involving a long chase, with numerous vehicles commandeered and numbers of the robbers injured. Unusually the initial payroll attack was photographed by undercover police officers and eye witness descriptions, alleged identifications and individual robbery "roles" were predicated against those photographic records to further complicate and confound the subsequent identification evidence on which the criminal prosecution relied.
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