Britain's Biggest Heists
This action-packed Crime and Investigation Network series takes a step by step journey through six of Britain’s most reknowned organised robberies. Can bank robbers and diamond busters ever get away with the perfect crime?
Each programme explores what happened in six of Britain’s biggest heists and asks the question: “Can they pull it off and escape with the loot?”
The series explores cases old and new, including the Millennium Dome Diamond heist, the Brinks Mat heist, the Tonbridge Securitas robbery, the Northern bank robbery in Belfast, the Manchester bank robbery and, last but not least, the Great Train Robbery.
*Britain's Biggest Heists screens each Thursday at 8pm
CRIME & INVESTIGATION NETWORK Crime Files
Great Train Robbery
Ronnie Biggs gained notoriety when he was named as one of a 15-strong gang that held up a Royal Mail train in 1963.
Ronnie and Reggie Kray
Gangster twins Ronald and Reginald Kray ruled London's criminal underworld in the 1960s.
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