John mcavoy biography

When John McAvoy was 18 years old, he was handed two life sentences. Now he’s the only Nike-sponsored Ironman triathlete.

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As a young boy, McAvoy didn’t realize it yet, but he was raised in a family of career criminals.

The year he was born, in , his uncle orchestrated a heist of £26 million worth of gold, diamonds, and cash from a warehouse in Heathrow as a member of an infamous robbery gang.

At the time, it was chalked up as the crime of the century, and while many of the gang members were convicted, most of the loot was never recovered.

He told The Independent that in , The Telegraph published an article chronicling the evolution of organized crime in Britain.

It singled out five of the most prominent individuals who had shaped the country’s scene in recent decades.

Three of those five men, he recalled, played a part in his upbringing, and he was on course to take over the family business.