Three men were today (Friday) handed sentences totalling 24 years over an armed plot to rob a cash-in-transit van.
Stephen Allen, 25, of Glenville Park, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim and Michael Leo McMillan, 29, of Carlisle Road, Belfast, received nine year sentences divided equally between custody and supervised licence on release from jail. Both pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to rob, possession of a firearm with intent and having a firearm and ammunition.
Jason Francis McMillan, 32, of Eithne House, Duncairn Parade, Belfast pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob and was sentenced to six years and two months, with three years and one month in custody and a similar period on licence.
