Heist: Robbing the Bank of England TV -
The heist is the stuff of legend. The world’s biggest ever robbery. Heist: Robbing the Bank of England I, Marcel Thereoux reporting, ID 2025
£292 was stolen in a matter of seconds. ibid.
But in this pre-digital age an antiquated City tradition left its banks vulnerable. ibid.
He carries millions of pounds’ worth of bearer bonds around the City every day in a briefcase. ibid.
To this day we don’t really know who was behind it. ibid.
‘The word on the street that the culprit was Pat Thomas.’ ibid. man in the know #1
‘It was an inside job … I don’t believe he [Thomas] would have been told [the value].’ ibid.
The City Bonds Robbery tops the list of infamous British heists. ibid.
In today’s money: £726 million. ibid.
‘I believe this work came from a guy who hung himself in 1999, a guy called Eugene Carter.’ ibid. man in the know #2
I wanted to know more about the recoveries. ibid.
It was [Ray] Ketteridge & [Keith] Cheeseman that the FBI really wanted. ibid. FBI guy
A few months after Osborne’s body was discovered, Patrick Thomas would lose his life. And in late 1991 newspapers reported that the body of Keith Cheeseman, one of the supposed masterminds, had been found in an Essex wood with his head and hands cut off. ibid.
Keith Cheeseman! How on Earth are you? … So that was Mr Keith Cheeseman. Alive and well. Heist: Robbing the Bank of England II
According the Keith Cheeseman, a key role in the robbery was played by a man he was called ‘Henry Nunn’. ibid.
£427 million … If he’s [Cheeseman] right, and telling the truth, that means someone got away with millions. ibid.
£130 million’ of bonds not accounted for. ibid.
Essex, August 16th 1990: In this pub Ketteridge and another man were arrested carrying 9 stolen £1 million bonds. ibid.
‘The police said that it wasn’t to the public interest to go forward with this case.’ ibid. Ketteridge junior