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TRIALS

A few months into 2010 the court cases came, I pleaded not guilty to them all and a trial date was fixed. Having a co-defendant ( co-d ) that was working with the police didn’t help! They knew everything, and this made things hard for me to fight the cases. However I remained strong and fought on, this is where things get complicated.

The Bentley garage was the only garage they had any real evidence on me, this was a spider man mask containing my DNA which was apparently left at the scene. note: the cctv showed the burgers wearing bandana’s not a Spiderman mask! this was impossible as I never took the mask to the Bentley garage, however I did leave it in a car I lent to my co-d and I believe they planted it at the crime scene, let me explain more...8am the garage owner unlocked and found he had been burgled, the police were called and arrived at 9am ish, scenes of crime aka CSI, seized the cctv, checked for prints and had taken photos of the alley way that was the suspected entry route by the burglars that gained access to the rear of the building where the keys’ and vehicles were stored, the photos of this alleyway were taken at 9.51am it showed nothing on the floor and it was very clear from the photos there was nothing, and the police didn’t log they found any masks. however once the police had left later that day a member of staff found this Spiderman mask in that very same alleyway! How could this be! Also paperwork from the police described a Spiderman mask being taken during a search of my car that I had loaned to my co-d, the mask was never booked into the police property, trying to prove my story was hard and my barrister was a jelly fish, he had no back bone and was not interested in fighting the case using allegations of police corruption. Both my co-d and I stood in the court with the trial for the four garages about to start, i noticed my co-d’s barrister talking with the prosecutions barrister, he looked over to my co-d and gave him a thumbs up, I leaned over and asked him what’s going on, and he said he had done a plea bargain. Standing up we was asked for our pleas again and my co-d went first, this was unusual as we had done the pleas and directions months earlier. he was offered a lesser charge of handling one of the Bentleys valued at £165.000, he pleaded guilty to the handling and all the other charges were dropped!, as there was more evidence against him for the Bentley garage than me I thought I’d have a deal offered. But I didn’t! I remained charged with all the garages while my co-d was taken down to be sentenced later separately from me! I knew he had grassed on me and they had split him up so the judge could treat him more leniently later.

By now I was angry and dug my heals in deeper refusing to cooperate or plead guilty to anything. The case was put off for a few months. A few months later I was Back at court and the trial was due to start, by now the cps knew I wasn’t going to roll over and offered me a plea deal, plead guilty to the Bentley garage and the Audi garage and they would drop the other two, I refused their offer, coming back with a counter offer, ill plead guilty to the Bentley garage if they dropped the other three, after a while they came back with their answer and agreed to my terms. I pleaded guilty to the burglary of the Bentley garage and they dropped the others, sentencing was put off until the results of the robbery case were known, the trial for the robbery was due to start the next month. The cps ended this case by applying for a proceeds of crime order to the value of £365.000, the results of this took over a year, going back and forth to court. I won and ill explain the case in detail later.

TRIAL FOR ROBBERY

Back to court again, standing in the dock for the robbery, this case was more serious than the burglary’s and if found guilty I could get a lump in jail onto top of the burglary I was told to expect 10-12 years. The fight was on! The trial went on for 2 weeks and was a very intense time. To summarise it, the case rested on phone cell site and GPS tracker evidence, at the time of the robbery July 2008, I was driving a 2007 BMW M3 that had a tracker fitted, 6 months after the robbery for an unknown reason other than someone having put my name up for the robbery the police decided to check out the tracker location and my phone locations at the time of the robbery, they both put me right in the area of the robbery at the time it happened, the description of the two males that had robbed the guard of the cash box were of Asian appearance, the case rested on expert evidence from GPS satellite experts, the crown said the gps put my car right outside the bank at the time of the robbery to within 1 metre making me the getaway driver. the cell site for the phone was less accurate and was not really relied upon, it came down to the gps evidence.

The tracker showed that the car had parked near to the bank and left within one minute of the robbery driving to a lane called, lovers lane, the lane rests on the side of a lake, the crown said I did the robbery and drove to the lake to open and then dispose of the cash box, the police had searched the lake and found nothing, my friend lives right by the lake and I remembered him telling me the police had spent 3 whole days with a dive team searching the lake, however this was not disclosed to the defence and I kept this info to myself until later, when we asked the main officer in the case why they didn’t find the cash box in the lake he said that they didn’t search it for long and only for one day, only searching a small part it, leaving it open to the jury to decide if the cash box could still be there. I told my barrister to summon the dive team leader who was not on the polices witness list, we asked him how long they searched the lake for and he told the court for 3 days! We asked him what the chances of them missing a big item like a cash box would be and he said 0 chance, in his expert opinion the cash box was not dumped in the lake, had it been he would have found it. This weakened the crowns theory that I had driven to the lake to open and dispose of the cash box, later when questioned I gave the real reason why I was at the lake and it was because I was with a girl, the name of the lane being known as lover lane explained it in more detail! Now I had to explain why my car was near to the bank at the time of the robbery.

The crowns case relied on the accuracy of a gps system similar to a gps sat nav, and depending on what map was used to overlay the gps coordinates the location of the car changed from being outside the bank to opposite the bank in a car park where a car cruise was going on. As I explained to the court I was in fact at this car cruise which was a few metres away from where the police had positioned my car using a map of their choice, and using a another map we could make the car appear in the car park. Dividing the road that the crown said I was parked as the getaway driver and the car park I said I was parked taking part in the cruise was a face, I could not have been a getaway driver if I was on the other side of this face in the car park, it all rested on how accurate the gps was.

The police went first bringing in 2 gps experts, both said that they place my car on the road within 1 metre of the bank and not in the car park. they both testified that in their expert opinion I was on the road acting as a getaway driver and not in the car park as a innocent cruise participant. My barrister thought that this was enough the convict me and we couldn’t dispute the polices expert witnesses, this was the day before summing up, it was late Thursday afternoon and after hearing this evidence I instructed my team to get our own Gps expert to dispute the polices, knowing that no gps satnav system can pinpoint at a accuracy of less than 3 metres I firmly instructed my team to get someone to back up my claim, if I could get the jury to understand that the gps tracker is not as accurate as the police were claiming I could have a chance of being found not guilty. I explained that satnavs often take people onto roads that don’t exist and often make mistakes, proving they are not precise as the police claim. This persuaded my team and My barrister asked the judge for time to get our own expert. he was not happy with this late request and gave us till the next day! This being 3pm Thursday. Taken back to jail I knew I was right but I needed to prove it. The next day my team came down to the cells with a statement from a satellite expert that worked for NASA! It said that no gps system could be as accurate as what the polices experts had claimed, my barrister wanted to serve the statement as evidence and not call the expert to give live evidence. I didn’t agree and instructed the team to get the expert here to give live evidence to have maximum impact of the jury, after all they just listened to hours of police expert evidence putting me right at the scene of the robbery and making me the getaway driver! A argument with my barrister ensued as he was reluctant to ask the judge for time to produce our expert witness, being embarrassed they hadn’t already instructed our expert! Not getting my point across and feeling bullied by my barrister I wrote a letter for him sign, it was to the effect that if he didn’t call this expert to give defence evidence but chose to reply on

just a statement and if was we to lose it would give me the right to sue him personally for not taking my instructions. This did the trick and my barrister made the application and got the expert to court on the Monday.

The polices “experts” were just telecoms experts with a little knowledge of gps systems, they said that as long as the gps system can see a minimum of 3 satellites they could pinpoint themselves within 1 metre. However! my expert wasn’t just any old expert, he built satellites and worked for NASA! He looked the part as he took to the evidence box, we asked his opinion of the accuracy of the system installed to the vehicle I was driving, he gave evidence that contradicted both the polices experts and made them look amateur and embarrassing to say the least. He produced documentary evidence that supported my claim that a gps tracker could not pinpoint itself within one metre, he gave evidence that even the army’s systems can only be accurate up to 3 metres and this being the case he gave the opinion that I was parked in the car park and not outside the bank! The crowns evidence about the time the security guard pushed his panic button also helped prove my innocents, it was shown that according to my phone and the tracker, that I remained at the scene of the robbery for over 1 minute after the panic button had been pushed despite the guard saying that the robbers jumped into a car and speed away with tyres screeching straight away, The crown now loosing attempted to use the mobile phone evidence, it was shown that I was using my phone at the time of the robbery, and help my defence as we made the point, why would I be talking on the phone if I’m meant to be a getaway driver?, the call went on before and throughout and after the robbery, one last great point I picked up on was this. The tracker had recorded the speed of the vehicle as it left the scene and drove to lovers lane, don’t forget the guard testified that the car speed away with tyres screeching and with a roar of a engine, the crown made a massive point that the car I drove was a high powered BMW M3! The perfect getaway car! My barrister standing up asked the jury to look at the tracker evidence focusing on the speed. At no point did I go over 40mph! The jury found me not guilty with a 10 to 2 majority. I thanked God then looked over the jury and thanked them.

SENTENCING FOR THE BENTLEYS

With the robbery case out the way the court set a date for sentencing for the burglary of the Bentleys garage, a few months later I was back before the judge again, and so was my co-d. He was being sentenced with me after all, handing out the sentences the judge done him first, 20 months! He was taken down. Then it was my turn, the crown really hyped up the crime and made a big deal about it being well organised, planned and sophisticated, making me out to be the main man. 4 years! Take him down. I was back in the court cells with the next 2 years to spend inside!, but I still had the proceeds of crime case to come and could end up getting double!

Being held in a category B jail until it was all dealt with meant I couldn’t progress through to a C then D cat open jail, the crown know this and use it to frustrate criminals up and down the country. Finally a year later I was back to court again! The crown wanting the judge to order me to pay £365.000! or service another 4 years on top of the 4 I was doing. They did a financial investigation into my assets and came to the conclusion I had “hidden” assets, luckily paying the last proceeds of crime for the Porsche helped me as it was accepted by the court as I had to sell my house to pay it i had no more assets to satisfy this POCA, the judge made what’s known as a benefit order in the amount of £365.000. it means if I ever come into money I will have to pay them. It also gives them the power to seize money and goods at a later date if I am discovered with anything of value. I had won, and only had to pay £1.00 to the court as a token. Going back to court I was free of anymore court cases and could settle down into my sentence and work towards getting to a d cat open jail.

MONEY LAUNDERING

However! I didn’t plan on what happened next. About six months after the case I was visited by the police and interviewed about money laundering. I can’t go into too much detail but I’m sure some fella i was pals with in jail had dropped a dime on me. Sitting there one day with him watching the tv, the news came on, it showed a money changing currency shop getting raided as it was at the centre of a money laundering drug gangs case. I mentioned to this “pal” that I knew this particular shop, telling him the reason why in some detail. Well I noticed he had a legal visit a week later, and a month later I was arrested for money laundering at this same shop! Coincidence? I don’t think so. This same fella also done me again later. I’ll get onto to that. So I’m back in court now for laundering £115.000 sterling, allegedly I changed it to 154.000 Euros at the same money change shop that was on the news. The police had gone to this shop and gotten hold of some paperwork from 3 years previous that made it look like I had changed £115.000 into 154.000 Euros! Copies of My passport and credit card were produced by the crown as evidence. If the judge agreed with the crown I would have been made to pay this £115.000 back as a proceeds of crime, and if I couldn’t I would be made to serve 3 years extra! Here we go again I thought!.... my barrister let me down by not asking the crown to provide cctv and the original documents as I had instructed him months previous! So I’m stood in court with another jelly fish that was meant to be fighting for me. however I had backed myself up by writing letters to the solicitor with my clear instructions re these requests and copied in the judge and the crown. This turned out to save me. walking into the court unhappy with my barrister I started to talk to the judge and he immediately rebuked me telling me I’m not going to take over

his court and to sit down until he’s ready! He also blasted me for not putting in a defence statement (which was the solicitors mistake) and said I would be lucky if he even let me give evidence now, he said he would wait and see how things went before deciding if my evidence would be needed.

I sat patiently listening to the crown go on about me having 100s of thousands of pounds and changing them into Euros and how I had been on the run in Spain etc... after the crown had their say I was called to the stand. now I had my chance to speak...the prosecutor started off. “Mr. Long you are a liar and thief aren’t you?” “yes I am, but instead of trying to assonate my character why don’t we let the evidence speak for itself?” I replied. He went on to talk about the photo copies of the form, passport and credit card I had signed. Then I asked him to produce the originals explaining I had written to the crown months previously asking them to get the originals and the cctv, as I wanted the originals tested for finger prints as my defence was that my identity documents had been used fraudulently, I further made the point in asking for the cctv and the man working on the day it was said I made this transaction and attempt to identify me and give a statement and come to court to testify, the prosecutor denied receiving any such requests and attempted to steam roller over my points, I asked the judge to check the court file as I had copied him in on these letters, the judge found my letters and so did the prosecution barristers legal helper, right there in the prosecutors file in front of him! He had lied about not seeing my requests! The judge asked why my requests were not answered and the crown replied by saying they didn’t have the funding to carryout forensics or travel to the shop to collect them! The judge was now eager to listen to me and I took this opportunity to make a massive point, the calculations on the money changing form were wrong! The judge praised me for picking up on this error and scorned the crown and my barrister for missing it. It showed that the shop was using peoples identity documents fraudulently and the judge dismissed the case. I had won.

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