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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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Cable was given a new identity under the witness protection programme, having been praised by police for her courage in giving evidence in the presence of Noye and his associates. Noye had joined the Freemasons Hammersmith Lodge in the hope of forging influential links that might prove useful during his criminal activities as a fence for stolen property. First on the scene are Flying Squad detectives DI Nicki Jennings (Charlotte Spencer) and DI Tony Brightwell (Emun Elliot). Reader scarpered and tried to thumb a lift – then unwittingly got into a police car and was arrested.

Adams was suspected of previously shielding Noye against prosecution and – as detailed in The Gold tie-in book – it was also alleged that Noye offered Adams payment to corrupt the Brink’s-Mat investigation from the inside. They were able to enter the warehouse with relative ease, with Black even opening the door to let them in. On November 26 1983, six armed robbers entered the Brink’s-Mat security warehouse at the Heathrow International Trading Estate. By this point, Noye, whose activities have been dramatised in the BBC series The Gold, had booked 20 places at one of the Hammersmith Lodge’s Ladies Festivals, the dinner dance parties where he liked to show off to friends and fellow Masons.

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”. The early intake of ecstasy into Britain came directly through Brink's-Mat money that was made from the job and then ploughed back into ecstasy, which was a brand-new drug. Despite Noye being ‘on the square’, Masonic police officers from the highest ranks to the lowest played their parts in bringing Noye to justice,” said Mr Neville. The robbers stormed into the staff room of the depot and made the security guards lay down on the floor. It’s true he was running surveillance and raids at multiple locations on the same day – and that a misstep in either location would raise the alarm along the gold chain.

While he was being investigated for his involvement in the crime, Noye fatally stabbed Detective Constable John Fordham who was involved in the police surveillance of Noye in the grounds of his home. Found guilty on 14 April 2000, after a trial held in conditions of high security, [28] Noye was convicted of murder by the jury's majority verdict of 11–1 after their deliberations had lasted 8 hours and 21 minutes, [29] and was given a life sentence by Lord Justice Latham. a b c d e f g "Kenneth Noye: Police still investigating murder of key witness in road-rage killer's trial 19 years ago". In 1985, Palmer and his family jetted off for a sun-soaked holiday in Tenerife – and not a moment too soon. 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.Witnesses to the murder in the retail park said they heard Decabral beg for his life before a young man in a woolly hat shot him. Noye was eventually expelled from the Hammersmith Lodge in October 1987 for “Rule 148” – non-payment of his annual subscription. Although six men were eventually arrested and convicted, it is widely believed that they were only a small part of a larger criminal network. By December 1996 this name was found to be a false identity used by Noye, after the Land Rover Discovery registered in his name and matching the vehicle driven by the man who stabbed Stephen Cameron was unloaded in Kyrenia, Cyprus, in July that year. Adams was investigated as part of the 1987 corruption probe, Operation Russell (which saw another investigated officer commit suicide) and was later named in reports on the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation.

After showing up for work late and bleary-eyed – claiming that he’d slept badly – Black took a toilet break. From a rough background but married into the establishment, the fictionalised Cooper character personifies some of the key themes: old vs new money, the changing face of London, and Thatcherism-fuelled ambition. There was only one problem – what could the six robbers do with all that gold bullion, with the police, customs and just about everyone else on the lookout for it?Canary Wharf – part of London Docklands – viewed from the Greenwich riverside, near the Cutty Sark (March 2022). But – also seen in The Gold – Noye was immediately re-arrested for conspiracy to handle the Brink’s-Mat bullion.

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