The hunt for the Brink's-Mat gold: PART 2 - The Sting

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🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The trail to recover the £26m in stolen gold from the high security Brink’s-Mat depot in London in 1983 leads undercover detective Ian Brown and a maverick group of Flying Squad officers overseas. Ripping up the rule book, they find an unlikely ally in their quest to crack the ‘crime of the century’ in the form of the US Drug Enforcement Agency.
But what’s happened to the 6,800 gold bars?

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0:30.4	This is part two of the Hunt for the Brinks Matt Gold, a two-part story from the new Sky News podcast series
0:41.0	Storycast. If you haven't heard part one of this story, go back and listen, because what we're
0:48.1	about to tell you now in part two won't make sense without having first listen to part one.
0:55.7	So, part two of the hunt for the Brinksmat gold.
0:59.8	We're now at a critical point in the investigation
1:02.4	to recover the £26 million worth of gold bars
1:06.2	stolen from the maximum security Brinks Matt Depot
1:09.5	near London's Heathrow Airport in 1983.
1:13.6	It's now January, 1985, and undercover Detective Superintendent Ian Brown
1:20.6	is watching the Kent home of enigmatic criminal Kenneth Noy.
1:24.6	He's most probably the best middleman you'll find, the best receiver of stolen property.
1:32.1	This guy is a major player in the criminal circles.
1:34.7	With the help of his high-class burglar friend Brian Reeder,
1:38.8	the stolen gold is being transported from Noy's house to Bristol
1:42.8	and to a jewellery and scrap metal merchants called Scadlins.
1:47.6	Scadlin was a gold company that advertised in the papers,
1:51.9	send us your scrap gold.
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