The Curse of Brink's-Mat: Twenty-five Years of Murder and Mayhem - The Inside Story of the 20th Century's Most Lucrative Armed Robbery

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a b c Kim Sengupta and Paul Lashmar Noye's tangled web of corruption, Independent on Sunday, 14 April 2000 Brian Perry was convicted for his role in the Brink’s-Mat robbery - disposing of the stolen gold bullion - at the Old Bailey in 1992, receiving a nine-year sentence for handling stolen property. He was shot dead in 2001 by masked assailants outside his minicab office in Bermondsey; two men were acquitted of the murder. What happened to George Francis? Kenneth Noye was put under surveillance by police investigating his role in the Brink’s-Mat robbery. He killed an officer surveilling him, DC John Fordham, but was acquitted by a jury in 1985 on the grounds that he was acting in self-defence. According to Wensley Clarkson’s book, The Curse of Brink’s-Mat, the fact that Kenneth Noye came from Bexleyheath (considered more Kent than London by fellow villains), rather than being a south east Londoner who moved to Kent, was a strike against him. “Noye wasn’t the real thing and he knew that the others thought that, too,” said the real-life Kathleen. Was there really police corruption in Kent?

Noye melted down the bullion and mixed it with copper coins to disguise the source. What happened to Kenneth Noye?On 19 May 1996, while on release from prison on licence, Noye was involved in a road rage incident with 21-year-old motorist Stephen Cameron on a slip road of the M25 motorway near Swanley in Kent. [14] [15] Noye stabbed Cameron to death with a 9-inch knife. Noye immediately fled the country assisted by Palmer, [16] who later claimed to have barely known Noye. [17] While Noye was on the run, Detective Constable John Donald was jailed for 11 years for passing confidential information to him. [18] [19] Mr Neville, himself a Freemason, examined Noye’s membership as part of Crime and The Craft, his book about Masonic involvement in criminality. It's not just gold that the police followed, but money too – or more specifically, gold turned into money. Noye’s messy financial relations with the Freemasons were unearthed by Mike Neville, a retired Scotland Yard detective chief inspector. The Gold, which concludes on BBC One on Sunday, includes several scenes of Noye cultivating the friendship of a corrupt senior Kent police officer at lodge events, including a Ladies Festival.

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The scheme was simple. Palmer’s smooth-talking sales team approached holidaymakers who already had timeshares and persuaded them to buy new ones (owned by Palmer), while also promising that they could sell their old timeshares for a profit to other companies. The Ministry of Justice said at the time: “Like all life sentence prisoners released by the independent Parole Board, Kenneth Noye will be on licence for the remainder of his life, subject to strict conditions and faces a return to prison should he fail to comply.” Mr Neville said that although Noye’s attendance at lodge meetings was irregular, “he did however like to attend Ladies Festivals – large dinner dance parties where he could show off to friends and be ‘flash’”. Palmer was shot dead at his home in Essex in June 2015. At the time he was killed, he was facing charges of fraud, money laundering and firearm possession in Spain. What happened to Brian Perry? Sources have reported that he is is “over the moon” with how he has been has portrayed, but the family of victim Stephen Cameron have been critical of the decision to portray him as a “loveable rogue”.The series accurately depicts the murder trial. As seen in episode four, the court really did relocate to Hollywood Cottage at night-time to give the jury a fair impression of how dark it was on the night of the killing, and how Noye could have mistaken Fordham for a dangerous intruder. The theatrical touch helped Noye’s defence; he was found not guilty. Following this robbery Brian Boyce went on to be involved in finding justice for the murder of Stephen Lawrence after he retired. He added: “Unfortunately, the lodge Ladies Night fell after Noye was put in prison on remand. The 20 places booked by him had to be paid for – the other members had to cover the cost.”

a b Tony Thompson "Curse of the Brinks-Mat heist claims its latest victim", The Observer, 25 November 2001And even in this first episode, his discipline in terms of when he took over the flying squad, which he did briefly, the image of the Sweeney all hanging out in pubs and smoking, he was like ‘right, we’re going for runs every lunchtime’. And it obviously lasted about two weeks until Brink’s-Mat came up. I think the Sweeney were delighted that he was off their case.