The hunt for the Brink's-Mat gold: PART 1 - The Heist

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

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True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, News

4.3 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In 1983, members of an armed gang break into the maximum security Brink’s-Mat depot near London’s Heathrow Airport and escape with £26m in gold. As the pressure mounts, Metropolitan Police chiefs turn to a wily, undercover detective with a reputation for being lucky. Ian Brown is given the job of cracking one of the most high-profile cases in Britain’s criminal history. But first, he must get on the trail that will lead to the missing gold.

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0:35.5	This sound of planes taking off and landing. It's at the site of an old security depot beside Heathrow Airport in London.
0:43.3	In 1983, this was the scene of the Brinks Matt Gold Bullion robbery, a crime that made headlines throughout the world. Good afternoon, it's the 26th of November, 1983.
1:01.0	Our top story, gold with a value of more than 26 million pounds, has been stolen from a warehouse in West London.
1:09.0	Witnesses say six armed men entered the Brinks Mat security depot near Heathrow Airport early this morning.
1:15.8	Police say the robbery is the biggest in British history.
1:20.1	I'm Martin Brunt, and this is the first of a two-part story entitled The Hunt for the Brinks Matt Gold
1:27.2	from the new Sky News podcast series
1:30.2	Storycast. In today's money, the value of the 1983 Brinks Matt Gold bullion robbery stands at
1:39.8	around £100 million and is still Britain's biggest ever armed robbery.
1:46.6	I've been reporting for Sky for more than 30 years, and very often I get asked about old
1:52.8	crimes, and one crime in particular, the 1983 Brinks-Matt-Gold Bullion robbery.
2:00.6	A crime that has always stayed with me, not least because some of those involved turned
2:06.1	up in the biggest cases I've covered since.
2:09.7	The reason I'm returning to this story, more than 35 years after I first reported on it,
2:16.0	is because of a police officer no one has heard from
2:18.8	until now.
2:20.4	The main inquiry is being carried out by the flying squad.
2:27.3	They're the people dealing with the robbery.
2:29.6	They're the people trying to put it all together.
2:32.4	We were working totally separate and unknown to them.
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