Caught on canvas: how armed robber has turned his life of crime into art

Jack Murton was inspired to paint in jail by a fellow inmate, a friend of Lucian Freud, and now has an exhibition in an east London galleryThere’s a fight going on in the public gallery, one of the defendants is shouting from the dock, the prosecuting counsel is trying to catch the judge’s eye, a sawn-off shotgun and a pistol lie on a table as evidence and one of the jurors has fallen asleep. This is The Trial, one of the many paintings capturing real events created by armed robber t