Lee Murray | |
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Born |
Lee Brahim Murray-Lamrani 12 November 1977 Greenwich, London, England |
Criminal penalty | 25 years in prison |
Criminal status | Incarcerated |
Conviction(s) | Bank robbery |
Lee Murray | |
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Born |
London, England |
12 November 1977
Other names | Lightning |
Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
Weight | 185 lb (84 kg; 13.2 st) |
Division | Middleweight |
Fighting out of | London, England |
Team | London Shootfighters |
Mixed martial arts record | |
Total | 12 |
Wins | 8 |
By knockout | 4 |
By submission | 4 |
Losses | 2 |
By submission | 1 |
By decision | 1 |
Draws | 1 |
No contests | 1 |
Other information | |
Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog |
Lee Brahim Murray-Lamrani (born 12 November 1977 in Greenwich, London) is an English career criminal, drug dealer, convicted bank robber and former mixed martial arts fighter. He was sentenced to 10 years in jail in June 2010 for masterminding a 2006 £53 million armed raid in Kent, England. His term was then extended to 25 years on 30 November 2010.
UFC president Dana White commented on Murray, that "He's a scary son of a b**ch, and I don't mean fighterwise".
On his mother Barbara Murray's side, Lee's family hails from Bermondsey, a densely populated part of south London located between Tower Bridge and the Old Kent Road, and also an area that has been a traditional breeding ground for professional criminals, especially armed robbers. Following World War II, the Murrays were among thousands of working-class families relocated from bomb-ravaged inner London to council estates on the outskirts of the capital. The particular location of the Murray residence was 6 Godstow Road in Abbey Wood, located between Shooter's Hill - so named because it was once a notorious area for highway robbery - and the River Thames, in the southeast corner of Greater London.
Barbara Murray was a hairdresser and later a telephonist, and it was on a holiday to Gran Canaria that she met Lee's father, Brahim Lamrani, a kitchen hand from the southern Moroccan city of Sidi Ifni. The couple's first child, Lee would be born in St. Nicholas Hospital, Plumstead, on 12 November 1977, and was initially raised by his mother while Brahim continued to live and work in the Canary Islands. Eventually he came to England and married Barbara in 1984, and the following year she gave birth to Lee's only sibling, a daughter named Rkia.