Man guilty of plot to spring dangerous criminal from prison van

Facing jail: Eren Hasyer
Metropolitan Police
Hatty Collier26 May 2016
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The final member of a gang who hatched an audacious plot to spring a dangerous criminal from a prison van faces a lengthy jail sentence after a jury found him guilty of being part of the conspiracy.

Eren Hasyer, 25, was among a five-strong team who were assembled by Izzet Eren to break him out of the van as he was being transported from Wormwood Scrubs prison to Wood Green Crown Court.

The plan was foiled when armed police swooped on their vehicles as they were parked near the north London court on December 11 last year.

During the operation an officer shot dead one of the gang, Jermaine Baker, 28, from Tottenham, which continues to be investigated by the IPCC.

Hasyer, of Kettering Road, Enfield, was on Thursday found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of conspiring in the escape plot, the Metropolitan Police said.

He was cleared of possession of an imitation firearm.

A second accomplice, Ozcan Eren, 31, from Wood Green - Izzet Eren's cousin - had denied the same charges but changed his plea part way through the trial.

Ozcan Eren (left), Izzet Eren
Metropolitan Police

Izzet Eren and two other members of the gang, Nathan Mason and Gokay Sogucakli, all from Tottenham, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to the same offences.

They will all be sentenced at a later date.

The gang had hatched a plan to break Izzet Eren out of the prison van as he was on his way to court for a sentencing hearing.

Nathan Mason (left) and Gokay Sogucakli
Metropolitan Police

He had earlier pleaded guilty to several offences after police caught him on a stolen motorbike carrying a loaded pistol in Stamford Hill.

A bag containing a loaded Skorpion machine gun was found nearby.

After the plot to free him from the van was foiled, his sentencing went ahead and he was jailed for 14 years along with an accomplice Erwin Amoah-Gyamfi.

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