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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/warehouse-robbers-fail-in-appeal.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Glenn Cameron (left) and John Twomey have failed in their appeal after being convicted of an airport warehouse robbery" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-warehouse-robbers-fail-in-appeal.jpg" alt="Glenn Cameron (left) and John Twomey have failed in their appeal after being convicted of an airport warehouse robbery"/></a></p>
<p>Four men jailed over a £1.75 million Heathrow warehouse heist after being found guilty in a historic trial without a jury have lost appeals against their convictions.</p>
<p>John Twomey, Peter Blake, Barry Hibberd and Glenn Cameron were convicted of robbery by a judge at the Old Bailey last March but argued that their trial was &#8220;unlawful&#8221;.</p>
<p>The trial in relation to an armed robbery at the warehouse in February 2004 was the first serious criminal trial to be held without a jury in England and Wales.</p>
<p>At the Court of Appeal, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, Mrs Justice Rafferty and Mr Justice Roderick Evans, who had been urged to find their convictions&#8221;unsafe&#8221;, rejected their challenge.</p>
<p>A non-jury trial took place after the Court of Appeal ruled there was a serious danger that a jury could be nobbled. There had been three previous abortive attempts to try the case, lasting up to six months at a time.</p>
<p>At the end of the fourth trial, Mr Justice Treacy passed guilty verdicts on Twomey, 62, of New Milton, Hampshire; Blake, 58, of Notting Hill, west London; Hibberd, 43, of Shepherds Bush, west London; and Cameron, 51, of New Milton, Hampshire.</p>
<p>Twomey was sentenced to 20 years and six months. Blake was jailed for life with a minimum term of 10 years and nine months. Cameron and Hibberd were sentenced to 15 years and 17 years and six months respectively.</p>
<p>Their appeal centred on the secret evidence of alleged jury tampering which had led to the trial being heard by a judge alone. It was decided at the time that this material could not be made public or disclosed to defendants because of its sensitivity.</p>
<p>But John Aspinall QC, for Twomey, said that in this case there had been no disclosure by the Crown about the jury tampering, either at the trial or during a previous Court of Appeal hearing which decided it should be heard without a jury.</p>
<p>But in a lengthy written ruling, Lord Judge said the four &#8220;received a fair trial before a court vested with appropriate jurisdiction&#8221;.</p>
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