Jimmy Moody await trial for armed robbery His cellmate was Provisional IRA member Gerard Tuite. The two men and fellow-robber Stan Thompson escaped Brixton Prison on 16 December 1980, which put them to the top of Scotland Yard's Most Wanted list. It was alleged that Moody had been paid £10,000 by the IRA to help get Tuite out of prison. Fleeing to Northern Ireland, Moody worked with the Provisional IRA. It was there that Moody coined the expression of awarding someone an OBE (One Behind The Ear) as in to shoot them in the head, a play on an OBE Award. The
Brixton Hill (ward) Brixton Hill (ward) Brixton Hill ward is an administrative division of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. It contains most of the road known as Brixton Hill and part of Acre Lane. It contains Brixton Prison, Lambeth Town Hall, Ashby's Mill (known as Brixton Windmill) and the adjacent Windmill live music venue, Electric Brixton (formerly The Fridge) and the Brixton centre of Lambeth College. The population of the Ward at the 2011 Census was 15,842. Brixton Hill ward is located in the Streatham Parliamentary constituency. At the Lambeth Council elections, 2010 residents of Brixton Hill elected three Labour Party Councillors