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 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 Mayer as "Brixton Estate Limited" to acquire a site at Brixton Road in London. In 1945 the company began to build up a portfolio by acquiring properties damaged by bombing during World War II. In 1997 the company decided to focus on industrial properties to the West of London and in 2001 the name changed to "Brixton plc". The company converted to