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”. Some believe Palmer was targeted because he’d been about to turn police grass to get himself off the hook in a new fraud investigation. Clarkson declined to name the real man, though the character is likely based on former Scotland Yard intelligence commander, Ray Adams. In fact, the gargantuan profits that earned him a place alongside the Queen on the Sunday Times Rich List largely flowed from the pockets of people he’d ruthlessly defrauded.

To help tell this astonishing tale, Sebastian Edwards, Deputy chief curator at Tower of London joins the podcast to explain how Blood nearly got away with the greatest heist of the 17th century. Noye was put under police surveillance and in January 1985 he encountered Detective Constable John Fordham in the grounds of his home.

The Gold ends with Kenneth Noye’s eventual conviction for conspiracy to dishonestly handle gold and VAT evasion. Unable to dispose of the bullion, robbery ringleader Micky McAvoy (Adam Nagaitis) turns to Kenneth Noye (Jack Lowden), a businessman hiding a criminal sideline. Though John Palmer was eventually cleared of any dealings with Brink’s-Mat bullion, subsequent accounts have linked him to the gold-into-cash operation. George Francis, who was suspected of handling the stolen gold bullion, was shot dead outside his Bermondsey courier business in May 2003. Adams was suspected of previously shielding Noye against prosecution and – as detailed in The Gold tie-in book – it was also alleged that Noye offered Adams payment to corrupt the Brink’s-Mat investigation from the inside.

Meanwhile, South London wheeler dealer Gordon Parry (Sean Harris) and the respected establishment solicitor Edwyn Cooper (Dominic Cooper), set about laundering the proceeds from the stolen gold. By this point, Noye, whose activities have been dramatised in the BBC series The Gold, had booked 20 places at one of the Hammersmith Lodge’s Ladies Festivals, the dinner dance parties where he liked to show off to friends and fellow Masons. The gang members – presumably not believing their luck – loaded the gold into their waiting van – it was so heavy that the chassis of the van reportedly scraped on the tyres – and took off with the loot. Found guilty on 14 April 2000, after a trial held in conditions of high security, [28] Noye was convicted of murder by the jury's majority verdict of 11–1 after their deliberations had lasted 8 hours and 21 minutes, [29] and was given a life sentence by Lord Justice Latham.On November 26 1983, six armed robbers entered the Brink’s-Mat security warehouse at the Heathrow International Trading Estate.

a b c d e f g "Kenneth Noye: Police still investigating murder of key witness in road-rage killer's trial 19 years ago". At first, it just seemed like “a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery”, in the words of detectives at the time.

Jo is also a self-proclaimed expert on Outlander and Brassic, and completely agrees that Die Hard is a Christmas movie. A far cry from where he grew up, this luxury pile came under the coppers’ cross-hairs following the biggest heist in British history. For obvious reasons, I don’t know exactly and it’s never been shown how deep those connections went.

Cameron's girlfriend Danielle Cable, who witnessed the killing, was secretly flown out to positively identify him, [15] which she did on 27 August.But I wouldn’t be surprised if detectives investigating organised crime today found links back to Brink’s-Mat. On 9 May 1671, Thomas Blood led his co-conspirators in a daring bid to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London. Canary Wharf – part of London Docklands – viewed from the Greenwich riverside, near the Cutty Sark (March 2022).