Channel 5 - Heists Series 1 (2016) Part 6 The World's Biggest Cash Grab

The incredible true stories behind some of the world's biggest, most infamous robberies. The great train robbery, the biggest diamond robbery or the theft of Mona Lisa. Get to know up close the most famous crimes in history … In six parts, we will take you to the world's greatest robberies and reveal their secrets. This series tells us incredible, yet true stories of the world's biggest robberies. With the help of action scenes, series takes the viewer through the crime step by step, from compiling a plan for the robbery and its course to a police search and the consequences. Legendary robberies are brought back with archival footage, dramatized scenes, or even the perpetrators themselves and other participants - experts and witnesses. HEISTS unlocks the truth behind the most audacious robberies in the history of the UK. With action packed dramatic re-enactments and interviews with those who were there we discover how these daring crimes were committed to uncover the masterminds and the plots behind them.

Part 6 The World's Biggest Cash Grab

The inside story of how a gang carried out the “king's ransom” in Britain's biggest cash heist in 2006, when criminals managed to steal E50m in cash from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent. On the night of the hold-up, the robbers tied up 14 terrified employees with cable ties, threatening to kill them if they disobeyed orders. Then the gang began loading cages, black holdalls and bundles of E20 notes into the back of a 7.5-ton Renault lorry during the 66-minute raid. The robbers had to leave E153m behind because they could not fit any more cash into the vehicle. The raid was so costly it threatened to undermine the UK's economic stability and saw the robbers take hostages, who were manipulated into helping them gain access to the vaults. The subsequent police investigation initially began as a hunt for a highly organised squad of professional robbers, but a series of catastrophic mistakes on the part of the culprits made it clear they were low-level criminals seeking riches. The programme takes an in-depth look at the night a gang made off with 53 million pounds, and how Kent police worked through the night to track the money and the men responsible.

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