of court after just 25 seconds due to insufficient evidence. In 1988, nine people, including Perry, solicitor Michael Relton and McAvoy's wife Kathleen, were arrested and put on trial for conspiracy to handle stolen goods. Relton was accused of bringing £7.5 million smuggled to Switzerland and Liechtenstein back to the UK to invest in London's property boom in the Docklands. A tenth person, property developer Gordon Parry, was also considered a co-conspirator but initially escaped arrest. The jury failed to reach a verdict for Perry who faced a retrial. Parry was arrested in Fuengirola, Spain in 1989 and returned to the UK a year later and charged with handling over £16 million. He went on trial with, among others, Perry, McAvoy's first wife Jacqueline, Patrick Clark, and Jean Savage in 1991. Perry was accused of laundering £7.5 million, Clark and his son £4.5 million and Savage £2.5 million. McAvoy's former wife was alleged to have benefited from a house her ex-husband bought her. The jury failed to reach a verdict for McAvoy but her house was seized. Convictions Anthony Black Black was sentenced to six years for robbery. Micky McAvoy, Brian Robinson Tried at the Old Bailey in December 1984, McAvoy and Robinson were sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment for armed robbery. McAvoy and Robinson were released from prison in 2000. Kenneth Noye, Garth Chappell, Brian Reader, Matteo Constantino In 1986, Noye was found guilty of conspiracy to handle the Brink's-Mat gold, fined £500,000, plus £200,000 costs, and sentenced to 14 years in prison. He served seven years before being released in 1994. Chappell was jailed for ten years for conspiring to handle stolen goods and fined £200,000 and Reader jailed for eight years. All three men were also convicted of fraudulently conspiring to evade VAT payments. Constantino was convicted of VAT fraud but acquitted of conspiring to handle stolen goods. He was given a 12-month suspended jail sentence. Michael Relton, Kathleen McAvoy In July 1988, Michael Relton was convicted of helping launder proceeds and jailed for 12 years. Kathleen McAvoy was convicted of conspiring to handle the stolen gold but given an 18-month suspended jail sentence. Gordon Parry, Brian Perry, Patrick Clark, and Jean Savage In August 1992, Gordon Parry, Brian Perry, Patrick Clark, and Jean Savage were convicted at the Old Bailey. Parry was jailed for ten years, Perry for nine years, Clark for six and Savage for