A cage fighter jailed for Britain's biggest cash robbery was left paralysed after he was shot in the neck as he stood in his kitchen, a court has heard.

Paul Allen, 46, was lucky to survive after he was hit twice by a gunman who fired at him over a fence from a neighbour's garden, the Old Bailey was told. The "career criminal" had been released from prison after serving a sentence for an armed raid on the Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent in 2006 where £54 million in cash was stolen. He was hit by bullets that passed through a window of his large detached home in Woodford, east London, just after 11pm on July 11, 2019.