Britain's Biggest Heists

- Season 2

(2011)

The Baker Street Robbery took place in September 1971, when a small gang tunneled their way 40 feet under Lloyds Bank in Baker Street, breaking through the reinforced concrete floor with a thermal lance. They were detected by a nearby amateur radio enthusiast who alerted the police, who originally failed to detect the robbery as there were no visible signs that the vault had been broken into. Four men were jailed for the robbery in 1973, and it was rumored that material had been taken from the vault that might prove damaging to the British royal family so the media ...

Stuart Buckley, the bank's electrician, acted as part of the gang who raided Mayfair's Bank of America. The raid took place on 16 November 1976, at the Bank of America in Mayfair, London.

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In 2004 a gang in Northern Ireland managed to execute one of the most audacious robberies in the world. A violent group kidnapped staff of the Northern Bank in Belfast and held their families hostage. In an elaborate plot, they ordered the staff to steal over £26 million, walking straight out of the bank with the money. In an unprecedented move, the Irish Government issued new notes in the country, to try and flush out the stolen money, but too little avail. In a robbery so calculated that not one of the thieves stepped into the bank to take the loot, none of the ...

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