‘It wasn’t only Britain’s biggest heist, it became the bloodiest’ Mail on Sunday The inside story of the 20th century’s most lucrative armed robbery.On 26 November 1983 six armed robbers escaped with 28 million worth of gold bullion from a Brink’s-Mat warehouse at London’s Heathrow Airport. The Curse of Brink’s-Mat reveals the pulse-racing full story of the crime itself before moving to its chilling aftermath, which still reverberates to this day. The heist made the careers of many of the underworld’s biggest names, and changed the face of British crime forever but in the years that followed the robbery, many of those involved, innocent and guilty alike have been sent to an early grave. Two decades on, the death toll is still rising.Nobody knows more about that extraordinary morning’s events than Wensley Clarkson, whose early career was spent as a reporter for Britain’s biggest-selling newspapers, providing him with a wealth of insider contacts.From small-time crime in south-east London, to ‘the heist of the century’ and its bloody consequences, Wensley Clarkson’s The Curse of Brink’s-Mat is an epic tale of villainy, gold and revenge.
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