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British Scandal

Hatton Garden | The Diamond Wheezers | 3

British Scandal

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History, Alice Levine, Society & Culture, True Crime, British, Great Britain, Exhibit C, Scandal, Matt Forde, Documentary, England

4.47.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

It seems Reader and his crew have met their match in the form of Detective Sergeant Jamie Day. In a dramatic game of cat and mouse, will 'The Diamond Wheezers' manage to evade capture?

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0:00.0

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0:07.4

Matt, I know as you are a delicate petal that I should warn you that this episode does contain some strong language.

0:12.7

Oh dear, why can't people express themselves without swearing? It's the big ones as well.

0:21.6

I've just been thinking this week about duo's partnerships and how more often than not, they end up

0:27.3

broken apart, they end up in hurt and pain and distrust. It's kind of sad.

0:32.1

Yes, it is when you think of some of the big partnerships. Lennon and McCartney, Blair and Brown,

0:36.5

they start almost as romantic connections, they end up hating each other. I just don't understand how you could end up

0:42.1

feeling like that about someone you'd enjoyed working with so much. I don't know, I feel like if you work with somebody long enough,

0:47.3

you could really start to hate their gods. You really stared through me then.

0:52.1

Did I? Did you get on with it? Yeah. Tuesday, April 7th, 2015,

0:59.1

Hatton Garden, Safe Deposit, 9 AM. Detective Sergeant Jamie Day peels apart a pair of latex gloves

1:06.7

and snaps them over his hands. Rounding a corner, he stops. Takes in the scene of complete devastation

1:13.7

before him. Discarded tools litter the corridor. Poddles of water dot the floor,

1:19.7

and a thick layer of concrete dust blankets everything. At the far end, he can see the massive vault door untouched.

1:28.3

Just beyond it, the dark opening of a hole, scores of black lock boxes like gathered in a heap.

1:34.9

The planning that must have gone into a job like this is for want of a better word, impressive.

1:40.7

And considering the location, the losses could be enormous. Day is a senior member of the Metz elite flying squad,

1:48.7

the fabled unit called in to bring down the UK's most wanted and most dangerous.

1:54.5

He watches as the forensic team completes their work, swobbing and dusting surfaces,

1:59.7

an officer in a blue paper boiler suit approaches carrying a bottle of bleach. He removes his mask.

2:05.9

The place is soaked in the stuff that will get any DNA from the scene. Day's heart sinks.

2:11.5

Using bleach to destroy DNA evidence shows a level of sophistication he doesn't often encounter.

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