MANCHESTER: Britain’s Biggest Heists TV -
In the summer of 1995 a gang of masked men viciously attacked a security van in Salford Greater Manchester. Over £6,000,000 was stolen when the van was dramatically ambushed at a security depot. Britain’s Biggest Heists s1e10: The Midland Bank Robbery, Sky 2011
This major breach of protocol [not pushing panic button] threw Graham Huckerby [van driver] straight into the frame. ibid.
SCOTLAND: Britain’s Underworld TV -
Arthur Thompson and Walter Norville – Walter Norville would become Glasgow’s first Godfather. His life of crime started in the late 1930s ... After his old world was torn down, he started again in the new housing schemes. He recruited young hard men and turned them into a gang of hard robbers. Britain’s Underworld s1e1: Glasgow, National Geographic 2010
For two years Blink and Ferris went on a robbery rampage. And in 1982 the partnership came to an abrupt end thanks to Arthur Thompson’s son young Arthur. ibid.
WALES: Rough Justice TV -
This is the story of how detectives closed their minds to all but one suspect. In doing so, they broke the rules designed to protect the innocent. Rough Justice: ‘The Usual Story’: Paul Berry, BBC 1996
Colwyn Bay: One stranger in particular at the building society on the Abergele Road … At another building society, the Halifax, just up the road the manager and her assistant had just finished serving two customers. It was around ten to four. ibid.
‘I saw the same man standing outside just to the right of our door … He ran towards the counter then jumped on to it. He said, ‘Fill it up, all of it.’ ibid.
The robber got away with just £600. ibid.
At the first parade two witnesses picked him out … Paul Berry continued to protest his innocence. ibid.
Paul Berry’s alibi appeared to stand up. Three independent witnesses came forward to confirm his movements that critical afternoon. ibid.
A prisoner on remand with Berry turned grass. ibid.
It took three trials to convict him. ibid.
The identification evidence was a mass of contradictions. ibid.
By contrast Paul Berry is much taller. ibid.