The Curse of Brink's-Mat: Twenty-five Years of Murder and Mayhem - The Inside Story of the 20th Century's Most Lucrative Armed Robbery

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Kenneth Noye: road rage killer moved to 'holiday camp' jail". Daily Telegraph. 9 September 2011 . Retrieved 13 February 2015. In on the heist from the very first, Kenneth Noye helped turn the gold into cash - and stabbed to death the undercover policeman sent to catch him. Acquitted of murder, Noye spent ten years in jail for handling the gold. Released, he stabbed another man to death in Britain's first 'road rage' killing. This time, he ran.

Palmer went on to have the dream criminal career,” says Wensley Clarkson. “He used the money either earned or stolen from Brink’s-Mat to launch the biggest time share operation in the world. It was criminally run but was considered a legal business – much to the jealousy of all other criminals. He made millions out of it. He was the envy of robbers and other criminals.” Sources have reported that he is is “over the moon” with how he has been has portrayed, but the family of victim Stephen Cameron have been critical of the decision to portray him as a “loveable rogue”.It still fascinates us because of the circumstances behind the robbery and the vast amount that they stumbled upon in the process of carrying out the robbery,” said Wensley Clarkson, author of The Curse Of Brink’s-Mat: 25 Years Of Murder and Mayhem, in an interview with Metro.co.uk.

a b Tony Thompson "Curse of the Brinks-Mat heist claims its latest victim", The Observer, 25 November 2001 Palmer was investigated again for fraud in the years after his release, but his criminal activities caught up with him in June 2015, when he was murdered in the garden of his Essex home. Wensley Clarkson recognised the character as being based on a real officer, whom he called “the grim reaper of bent coppers”. Clarkson declined to name the real man, though the character is likely based on former Scotland Yard intelligence commander, Ray Adams.

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Meanwhile, South London wheeler dealer Gordon Parry (Sean Harris) and the respected establishment solicitor Edwyn Cooper (Dominic Cooper), set about laundering the proceeds from the stolen gold.

A police hunt assisted by GCHQ found Noye in Spain, where he was arrested in the resort of Barbate near Gibraltar [21] on 28 August 1998. [22] [23] [24] [25] Cameron's girlfriend Danielle Cable, who witnessed the killing, was secretly flown out to positively identify him, [15] which she did on 27 August. [26] Noye lost an appeal against his extradition from Spain seven months later. [27] He was extradited to Britain in May 1999, nine months after his arrest, and went on trial 10 months later.The heist – and its aftermath: smelting, laundering, and murder – are the subject of the BBC’s new six-part drama, The Gold, which is available now on iPlayer. But what’s the solid gold truth? And what’s 24-carat fiction? Did the robbers have an inside man? His examination of the Hammersmith Lodge No 2090’s minutes found that Noye attended 10 out of 21 meetings held between January 1980 and January 1984 at the Star & Garter Hotel in Brentford, west london.

Brian Robinson was also released from prison in 2000. He died in a nursing home in Kidbrooke on February 28, 2001.The scheme was simple. Palmer’s smooth-talking sales team approached holidaymakers who already had timeshares and persuaded them to buy new ones (owned by Palmer), while also promising that they could sell their old timeshares for a profit to other companies. In fact, these other companies were also owned by Palmer, and there was no intention of reselling the old timeshares. This left the targets saddled with two properties to pay for. An estimated 20,000 holidaymakers, many of them elderly, were swindled this way.