One of Britain’s most notorious gangsters who was once dubbed "public enemy number one" has died in jail.
Wayne Hurren is understood to have taken his own life aged 58 at Wormwood Scrubs prison, in west London, on Saturday.
He was serving a sentence of five years and four months for possession of an imitation firearm.
In 1988 he was jailed for a total of 20 years for a string of armed robberies and wounding police officers.
Three police officers were shot as they chased Hurren, who was armed with two guns, before he escaped in a vehicle hijacked at gunpoint.
The Old Bailey heard he stole an estimated £1.7 million in the course of four armed raids.
Hurren, originally from Shoreditch, in north London, was accused of a 13-year reign of terror in the capital when he was charged with three gangland execution-style murders in 1996.
But three years later he was cleared of ordering a hit on mini-cab boss David Foley from a prison phone, before prosecutors dropped the two other murder charges.
A Prison Service spokesman said: "HMP Wormwood Scrubs prisoner Wayne Hurren died in prison on March 16 2019.
"As with all deaths in custody, there will be an independent investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman."
