The Brink's-Mat Legacy

<p>On the morning of <strong>26 November 1983</strong> six armed men stormed the Brink's-Mat depot at Heathrow. They expected to find cash. Instead they uncovered nearly <strong>three tonnes of gold bullion</strong> - Britain's biggest heist.</p><p>What followed was more than a robbery. It became a decades-long saga of <strong>organised crime in London</strong> smelting laundering betrayal and murder. The press called it the <strong>curse of Brink's-Mat</strong> as associates and launderers met violent ends.</p><p><strong>The Brink's-Mat Legacy</strong> traces the gold's journey from Heathrow to the furnaces of Hatton Garden through timeshare frauds drug cartels and international money laundering. Along the way it examines the careers of figures such as <strong>Kenneth Noye</strong> John Goldfinger Palmer and others who shaped Britain's criminal underworld.</p><p>Accessible factual and gripping this book sets the Brink's-Mat robbery alongside the <strong>Great Train Robbery</strong> and other famous heists showing how a single crime changed British policing law and organised crime forever.</p>