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 plc a Real Estate Investment Trust status when REITs were introduced in the United Kingdom in January 2007. In August 2009 Brixton was taken over by SEGRO. The company owns a portfolio of circa 25 m sq. ft. of industrial and commercial properties in the West London area. The main properties are at: At 31 December 2008 its portfolio was valued at £1.6bn. Brixton plc Brixton plc was a British-based property business headquartered in London. It was a former constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The firm was acquired by SEGRO in 2009. The company was founded in 1924 by Percy