“It looks like a movie”: iPad that was 5 years in Rio resolves a museum assault and attempted murder

Tablet had an intact yes card and “plotted” three men involved in an attempted murder in London and the millionaire assault on a Swiss museum, from which they stole valuable artifacts from the Ming Dynasty.

An iPad recovered from the Tamisa River, more than five years after being thrown into the water, recently helped to condemn three men involved in an attempted murder In 2019, revealed the London Metropolitan Police in.

The tablet, discovered during a case-related search, was no longer functional, but the SIM card was found intact and was linked to Daniel Kelly, 46, one of the main suspects in the investigation and that, with brothers Stewart and Louis Ahearne, 46 and 36, was considered guilty of conspiracy for murder on Monday.

The trio orchestrated a shooting on July 11, 2019, which left the victim, Paul Allen, 45, paralyzed for the rest of your life. The investigators tracked the group plan and the execution of the attack with the help of iPad data, mobile phone records, security images and enrollment recognition. The three had placed a location device in the victim’s car and used the iPad to monitor their movements.

On the night of the shooting, Kelly and Louis Ahearne drove to Allen’s house while Stewart Ahearne was waiting in a rented car. At 11:09 pm, six shots were fired at the house that hit Allen, who was in the kitchen.

The investigation also associated the same individuals with a theft of a museum in Switzerlandwhich took place only a month before the attack of London. The trio was responsible for stealing valuable artifacts from the Ming dynasty worth more than $ 2.3 million from the Far East Museum of Arts in Geneva.

Stewart and Louis Ahearne were extradited to Switzerland at the beginning of the year, where they were sentenced to three and a half years in prison, five years in the prohibition of returning to the country and fines of about $ 60,000 each.

“The recovery of iPad corroborated our theory that this [o iPad] It had been used to locate the victim and move communication devices linked to the defendants, ”Detective Matt Webb told.“ Finding this five years later in a tide river was a real surprise! Also raises the question: Why would anyone feel the need to lie down an iPad in the river? ”

“It seems the plot of a Hollywood box office success,” said the person responsible for the case.