Gordon John Parry, Brian Perry, Patrick Clark, and Jean Savage were all given between five and 10 years in prison for their parts in the crime. The heist – and its aftermath: smelting, laundering, and murder – are the subject of the BBC’s new six-part drama, The Gold, which is available now on iPlayer.

He fled abroad, but was located in Barbate in Spain in August 1998 and was extradited to Britain in May 1999. They spread across many deaths and many continents and there are still reverberations until this day.Will Pearson's searing, no-punches-pulled page-turner takes us from the grimy back streets of Peckham via secret Spanish villas and a Cosa Nostra Florida condominium to the high life in Switzerland, playing an expert light on one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of crime. Noye was refused permission to move to an open prison by Justice Secretary Michael Gove in October 2015 after such a move had been recommended by the parole board. Another reported detail is missing from the restaging: that when they left the warehouse, one of the robbers told the guards, “Merry Christmas, lads.

In Battlefield near Bath, where Palmer lived, neighbouring couple Ray and Honor Poulston reported seeing a smelter in action – just two days after the Brink’s-Mat robbery. The most laboured point in The Gold is Boyce’s battle against a Freemason-controlled establishment – the men at the top who profit from crime but never get their hands dirty like the salt-of-the-earth gangsters. In 1996, he murdered 21-year-old motorist Stephen Cameron on a slip road of the M25 motorway near Swanley in Kent in a road rage incident. Thanks to Black, they identified the two most senior guards who held the keys and combination numbers for the vault where three safes were located. But some names have been changed and the character of Charlotte Spencer is an amalgamation of three different police officers.The Brink’s-Mat robbery also provided the police with an understanding of how criminals were hiding their money.

At the time he was killed, he was facing charges of fraud, money laundering and firearm possession in Spain. In November 1983, six armed robbers burst into a Heathrow warehouse owned by the Brink’s-Mat security and logistics company. The Gold shows a fairly accurate depiction of the Brink’s-Mat money-laundering scam, with Cooper and Gordon Parry (Sean Harris) – who was a real person involved with the scam – funnelling the money into multiple bank accounts in places such as Switzerland, Jersey, and Lichtenstein. In the series, Jeannie (Dorothy Atkinson) is a down-on-her-luck moll who’s roped into the Brink’s-Mat money laundering scheme by Noye. Adams was named among accusations that NDS had hacked codes and helped pirates gain access to Murdoch’s pay-TV competitors.The BBC’s new six-part Sunday-night drama The Gold tells the story of one of the most extraordinary British crimes of the last few decades – the 1983 Brink’s-Mat armed robbery. He was extradited to Britain in May 1999, nine months after his arrest, and went on trial 10 months later. Fans have been raving about new BBC drama The Gold, which follows the story of six robbers who found a vault full of gold bullion.