Channel 5 - Heists Series 1 (2016) Part 1 Britain's Biggest Bank Job

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 1 Britain's Biggest Bank Job

“Let Sherlock Holmes try to solve this!” was the message robbers sprayed on the vault of the Lloyds Bank branch in Baker Street in September 1971, having just pulled off an extraordinary heist. The first of a new series about great robberies looks at a crime that still rattles with rumours and unanswered questions of police corruption. Series explores some of history's most clinical and audacious robberies, starting with Lloyds Bank's Baker Street branch in London, when thieves made off with E1.5million and 260 safety deposit boxes – a bigger take than the Great Train Robbery a few years before. Their loot included cash, jewels — and possibly secrets directly from the British royal family. The incredibly elaborate scheme would involve an underground tunnel, an explosive break-in, and a bounty from some of the richest and most powerful people in Britain. Over a September weekend, a gang tunnelled underneath a Chicken Inn restaurant into the vault of Lloyds Bank at 185 Baker Street. The thieves used walkie-talkies to communicate with a look-out on the roof. In the end the thieves made off with a haul in excess of ?3million which in 1971 made it the largest ever bank robbery in Britain.

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