It ain’t the money, Bruce. I just want to go home. ibid. Buster
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Forget the Great Train Robbery. Forget the Northern Bank in Belfast. Britain’s biggest ever robbery took place in the early hours of this morning in Kent. ITV News at Ten
‘The worst night of my life’: a depot manager’s account of his terrifying ordeal. BBC News
A highly organised attack; the callous gang terrorised their victims for hours. Stealing a record £53 million they fled into the night. This is the dramatic story of the Securitas heist. Britain’s Biggest Heists s1e2: Securitas, Kent, Sky 2010
21st February 2006: the Securitas Depot in Kent, south-east England. Staff are part-way through their evening shifts sorting money ... Held against their will, the staff had no choice but to comply. ibid.
The depot manager, his wife and young child, had been kidnapped at gunpoint prior to the raid and forced to reveal confidential information. ibid.
With all this evidence only days into the inquiry detectives decided to visit some of their suspects. ibid.
Kent police ... capturing most of the main suspects and recovering nearly £23 million. ibid.
They disappeared into the night with half a ton of cash mostly in ten and twenty pound notes. Real Crime with Mark Austin: Britain’s Biggest Heist, ITV 2010
Medway House: the Securitas cash depot was used to sort and circulate cash around the country for the Bank of England. Money used to service cash-points and shops. ibid.
They fixed on this man: manager Colin Dixon, married with a child, he’d been with Securitas four years. ibid.
For the next hour the robbers went backwards and forwards filling their lorry with money using cages, holdalls and even a shopping trolley ... The robbers had filled the lorry with £53 million in new and used bank notes. They had to leave behind £154 million. ibid.
Within hours their carefully laid plans were about to unravel. ibid.
This Kent gang were a pretty hopeless bunch of amateur misfits, knuckleheads, bruisers. I mean these weren’t heavy-duty criminals ... Pretty thick a lot of them. Howard Sounes, author Heist
On the night of 21st February 2006 a gang of armed criminals stormed the Securitas Depot in Kent. Crimes that Shocked Britain
22nd February 2006: news of the greatest cash heist this country has ever seen hits the headlines. It was a daring raid netting the criminals a staggering £53 million. Heists s1e4: Britain’s Biggest Cash Grab, Channel 5 2017
They kidnapped and terrorised innocent people. ibid.
Security at the cash depot has only one real weakness – its staff. ibid.
The manager of a cash depot Colin Gibson has been kidnapped and is being forced to help a gang of criminals get inside a secure cash vault in Tonbridge Kent. ibid.
Inside this room is more than a quarter of a billion pounds in cash. The used notes are stored in cages, colour-coded according to value. ibid.
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Showers was establishing himself as an armed robber. But he would go down in criminal history for a different reason ... By 1970 Showers was an armed robber with a growing sideline in Cannabis dealing. He was also an increasingly big figure in Toxteth and prepared to use violence to maintain his reputation ... By going to Africa and importing Cannabis direct he dramatically increased the supply of drugs. Britain’s Underworld: Liverpool, National Geographic 2010
Dock theft had a long history in Liverpool. In many ways it was the City’s signature crime. And it was a world away from cutting-edge bank jobs. ibid.
Charlie Siega needed little encouragement. He began robbing the country houses of north Wales of their antiques. ibid.
Yet the hard drugs revolution on Merseyside would not come from Toxteth but the other side of the Mersey. And it caught everyone by surprise ... Career villain Charlie Siega watched many of his peers dive headlong into the gold-rush. One man who seized the opportunity was Tommy Comerford. The so-called mastermind of the Water Street Bank Robbery. Comerford starting importing a whole range of drugs from heroin to LSD, and became the first British criminal to forge links with most of the world’s drugs regions. It made him a fortune, but Comerford still lived in a council flat. ibid.
Curtis Warren: Warren’s rise is one of the most remarkable in British criminal history. He first made the news aged 16 when he mugged a 78-year-old woman on the steps of Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral. 8 years later he was arrested in Switzerland trying to rob a shoe shop. By the early ’90s he had progressed to mid-level drug dealing. Mysteriously though Warren made a huge leap forwards. ibid.
I started to rob drug dealers. It’s called Taxation. Stephen French
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He [Hill] launches a new audacious type of crime [London]: Post Office robbery. Wartime Crime I, Yesterday 2018
In 1952 he carries out the Eastcastle Street robbery with a value of over £7 million today, it is the biggest criminal heist Britain has ever seen. ibid.
I never killed anyone who didn’t deserve it. St George’s Day 2012 starring Craig Fairbrass & Frank Harper & Charles Dance & Vincent Regan & Dexter Fletcher & Nick Moran & Keeley Hazell & Jamie Foreman & Sean Pertwee & Luke Treadaway & Ashley Walters et al, director Frank Harper, opening commentary
You can’t beat a bit of wet. ibid. gangsta to gangsta
This ain’t a fucking game show, you cunt. ibid.
This is what I call the Paranoia Time – being grassed up, an occupational hazard. ibid. commentary
Ray wanted out but he was back in it deeper than ever. ibid.
Prison or death to us was an occupational hazard. ibid. gangsta
Well well well if it’s not Donny Brasco. ibid. rozzer
It’s a deal, it’s a steal, it’s sale of the fucking century. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels 1998 ***** starring Jason Statham & Jason Flemyng & Dexter Fletcher & Nick Moran & Vinnie Jones & Steven MacKintosh & Sting & Nicholas Rowe et al, director Guy Ritchie, Tom to Nick
Now let’s see his fucking cards. ibid. Hatchet Harry
Hatchet Harry is a man you pay when you owe. ibid. Bacon
I don’t fucking believe this. Can everybody stop getting shot. ibid. Robbers in security cage
I fucking hate traffic wardens. ibid. gang in van
You’re stupidity might be your one saving grace. Don’t er me, Greek boy. How is it your fucking stupid soon-to-be-dead friends thought that they might be able to steal my cannabis and then sell it back to me? Is this a declaration of war? Is this some white cunts’ joke that black cunts don’t get? ’Cause I’m not fucking laughing nick-ol-ass. ibid. black gangster to the Greek
If you want to know how to do a drug deal you watch Scarface. ibid.