The Brink’s-Mat gold bullion theft — the subject of BBC One’s new drama The Gold — is so infamous there should be a monument.
Committed on 26 November 1983, by six men who broke into a London Heathrow lock-up looking to grab £1m, but stumbled on gold instead.
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