Entries from Londonist tagged with 'brinksmat'
November 26, 2007
This Week In London’s History Monday – 26th November 1983: An armed robbery at the Brinks Mat warehouse near Heathrow Airport becomes the largest heist in British history, as £25 million worth of gold bullion is pinched. Tuesday – 27th November 2000: 10-year-old schoolboy Damilola Taylor is stabbed in the leg and dies in Peckham, south London. The following six years would see several trials and re-trials over the killing, finally culminating in the......
Continue Reading "Monday Miscellanea"March 30, 2006
It's not quite the Brinks Mat job, but there's an extra couple of grand on the streets of London tonight - all in £1 and £2 coins half-inched from Sainsbury's: Three men appear to have parked a van directly behind the unmarked security lorry in Grafton Way, Camden. From there, they were able to remove the bags of £1 and £2 coins while the driver and one other were in the store. Police said......
Continue Reading "The Great Shrapnel Robbery"