Remembering ‘Gunchester’
Active throughout Manchester’s “Gunchester” heyday in the 1990s, Jason Coghlan was eventually sentenced to 12 years in prison for his part in a bank robbery in Lancashire in 1998.
Jason in front of his BMW, outside his childhood home in Brinnington, Manchester.
Now he runs JaCogLaw, a specialist law firm representing British expats caught up in foreign legal systems, from Costa del Sol to Bangkok. VICE met Jason while making a documentary about his life as a reformed robber turned law firm owner. Here he talks us through an average bank robbery, and then his spectacular, and not so average, escape from custody.
For more on Jason and JaCogLaw, look out for our upcoming documentary on VICE.com
