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
Gerard Tuite intent to endanger life. A sawn-off shotgun and Armalite rifle were also found at the flat. These and other items, including car keys and voice recordings, linked him to other bombings as well as the targeting of senior British Conservative and royal figures. According to historian J. Bowyer Bell, he had been involved in no fewer than eighteen bombing attacks in five British cities with Patrick Magee, the Brighton bomber, alone. Tuite served his sentence in Brixton Prison until 16 December 1980 when, in one of the most daring prison break-outs witnessed in Britain he escaped with two British inmates,