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The essence
of any great story
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is the "fuck me" moment.
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{\an8}It was one of the
most daring robberies ever.
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Biggest diamond
heist in the world.
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One where you go,
"Fuck me, really?"
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This was the
glittering prize.
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The De Beers Millennium Star,
a flawless stone of 203 carats.
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Worth over 350 million.
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It's audacious
in the extreme.
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It was just something
you couldn't comprehend.
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You couldn't imagine that
people would attempt it.
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How the f... hell
did they do it?
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Are you all sitting comfortably?
And I'll begin.
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{\an8}I wasn't surprised someone was
going to try and steal the diamonds
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{\an8}because if I was a robber, I
would probably think the same way.
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{\an8}You can't help but be
impressed by their planning,
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{\an8}by their balls.
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{\an8}You wouldn't believe it if it
were in the movies, but it's true.
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{\an8}This was the epitome
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{\an8}of the great, "Fuck
me, that is a story."
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Seeing the Dome
brings back a lot of memories.
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It was a really wild
time in my life.
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I've never spoken
about what happened.
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But I feel like I'm finally ready
to tell my side of the story.
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I think the best
place to start...
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would be July 2000.
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Four months before
the diamond heist.
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Target spotted.
Right on schedule.
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Copy that.
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We're in position.
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We spent months planning
a job on a security van.
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There was 8,900,000 in there.
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It was the
biggest job of my life.
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But before we could
get to the cash...
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we had to take care of
the security guards.
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Gentlemen, put your
hands on the windscreen.
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On the inside of the cab,
they've got a panic button,
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so we needed to get them to put
their hands on the windscreen.
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I said...
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put your fucking hands
on the windscreen!
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Even with a shotgun
pointed at their faces...
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...some security guards
try to be heroes.
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So I made sure that we had a backup plan.
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♪ Change my pitch up ♪
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The security van's bulletproof,
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but it's not bombproof.
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♪ Change my pitch up... ♪
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We didn't want to harm anybody.
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We just wanted to scare them into
doing what we want them to do.
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If someone put it on the side of your
car, and it looks like a landmine...
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...what are you gonna do?
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The only way to get into the back
of that van is to make a hole in it.
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Go!
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But you don't want it to be
like it was on The Italian Job
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when they blew the van up.
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You're only supposed to
blow the bloody doors off!
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So, why
not make something?
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Smash the doors open in the
back without damaging the money.
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♪ Change my pitch up ♪
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There's nearly £9 million
in the little cages inside.
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But as soon as the
police turned up,
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we knew we're not gonna have
time to get that money out.
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From then on, it was get away.
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Go, go!
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Armed and masked robbers
used a van equipped with a steel spike
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to ram a Securicor
van early today.
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There were reports
of shots being fired.
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Police say it
was a well-planned attack.
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It was
completely gutting.
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This job was supposed
to be my big payday,
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the one to set me up for
life and give me respect.
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It takes a few weeks
to get over it.
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But then you bounce back
up and you go again.
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{\an8}♪ I like a new Lincoln ♪
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{\an8}- Oh, this song takes me back.
- ♪ With all of its class ♪
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♪ I like a martini ♪
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♪ And bird on the glass... ♪
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My role model growing up
would be my father, I suppose.
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♪ ...start living,
you wait and see... ♪
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We'd go down to the local pub and meet
up with all these old sort of gangsters.
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Who made it a law that it's wrong
to go and get what you want?
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If a lion wants something to feed
its babies, it goes and gets it.
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So we do the same.
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I respect what they do and
how they carried themselves.
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I was in that little crowd with
them, and you wanna be like them.
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♪ Nothing but the best ♪
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♪ Is good enough for me ♪
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What'd you think
your dad did for a living?
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From day one, I knew exactly
what he was doing for a living.
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Every two or three weeks,
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my dad's place was
getting raided by police.
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Nine years old, just lying
in bed, you're asleep,
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and all of a sudden your bedroom
door's just, like, knocked open.
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So, what are
your thoughts on the police?
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Um...
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I think they're all
a bunch of cunts.
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♪ Like a train going
down the track... ♪
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- Go! Come on!
- All right.
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When I was younger,
I was game to do anything.
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Hurry up!
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Lee, come on! Hurry up!
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But the first
thing I really stole was a JCB.
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Come on!
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Come on!
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It was a bit nerve-wracking.
I was a bit shaky.
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You know, you're 15 years old, and
you've just stolen a ten-ton machine.
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But once you've
got away with that first one,
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it's just, "Let's do it again."
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♪ Like a train
going out of sight ♪
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♪ I will never forget
this night... ♪
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I started getting into
bringing over cigarettes.
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And then taking out cash points.
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I was pulling in six grand a week.
That's a lot of money in your 20s.
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I didn't want to just
be like the average Joe
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and just go to work every day.
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I wanted to be different.
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I can swear, right?
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- Yeah.
- Thank God 'cause it's, like, my language.
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Do you know, it's, like, even if I go out,
I'll be in the pub, I don't know anyone.
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{\an8}I'll get someone going, "You're
Lee Wenham's daughter." I'm like...
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{\an8}"No, I don't know who
you're talking about."
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{\an8}They're like, "Yeah. We saw him."
And we're like, "Fuck's sake."
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Everyone knows our family. If you mention
the Wenhams, they're like, "We know them."
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What did you think your dad
did for a living when you were younger?
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We never asked. It was a
question that was never asked.
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Actually, no, I actually
remember asking him
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because I was in school. It was,
like, "What does Mummy and Daddy do?"
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And the answer was always,
"You don't want to know."
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I never wanted my kids
to know what I was up to.
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And I tried to hide
it as much as I could.
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I didn't want them, um...
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going down the same path.
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He was very good at
hiding everything he was doing.
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You wouldn't have known at all.
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I just remember him being really
protective over me and my sister
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all the time.
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Me and my sister
were my dad's world.
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When I got to my 20s,
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I was more or less there with
what I wanted to achieve.
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I'd made a lot of money.
I was comfortable.
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I had my daughters.
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But there was one thing missing.
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I wanted to be like
my dad and his mates,
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and I just wanted the
respect of people,
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like people would look at them,
the respect they gave them.
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I wanted to do something really
big, to say that I did that.
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And then in July 2000, my
dad introduced me to Ray Betson.
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{\an8}Ray's very well-connected.
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He's a big fish in London,
in the criminal world.
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Very sort of, uh... very suave.
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He had very dark
eyes, like shark eyes.
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Look into his eyes, you could see
he could handle himself, you know.
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If you crossed him, yeah,
you knew you'd be in trouble.
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A lot of trouble.
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Ray told me that he was
planning something really big,
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and he needed my help.
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It's gonna take a lot
of careful planning.
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But if we can pull it off, it means
everyone gets a big payday, that's what.
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Ray told me the target
he was going for
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was in the Millennium Dome.
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{\an8}But I didn't have
any idea what it was.
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I've worked in national
newspapers for 30-odd years,
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and when they built
the Millennium Dome...
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it had disaster
written all over it.
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{\an8}And I thought, "Wow."
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{\an8}That was a story that was
gonna sell newspapers.
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The great thing
about newspapers,
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particularly tabloid newspapers,
is that things change so quickly.
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At the end of the 20th century,
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there was an amazing period
of change in Britain.
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No retreat from the
road to the future.
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There was a new government that
was led by a guy called Tony Blair.
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There was something that
was called Cool Britannia.
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The Union
Jack is in fashion.
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We had Britpop. We had Oasis.
We had Blur. We had the Spice Girls.
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And they were setting
fire to the world.
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♪ Come, oh ye faithful... ♪
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TV was exploding, social media
was starting to appear, the Internet.
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It was a great, exciting time.
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And this government
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was determined to
cash in on this.
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Well...
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So, in their excitement to
try to mark the millennium coming,
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they decided they were gonna
build the Millennium Dome.
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This is
Britain's opportunity
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to greet the world with a
celebration that is so bold...
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There'd be
lots of exhibitions.
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And they got De Beers to create,
effectively, a museum of diamonds.
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I was always interested
in beautiful things,
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but the diamond is very special.
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It's like magic.
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Something draws you to it,
and then you can't let it go.
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{\an8}Diacore and myself are in
the business of diamonds,
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{\an8}and we specialize in the
very, very rare diamonds.
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In the middle of the 1990s,
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there was a stone that was discovered
in a very remote area in Zaire,
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which is supposed to be the
greatest stone of times.
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I can show you how it looks.
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I think I have it... here.
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This was the rough.
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It was 777 carat, which
is extremely unusual.
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And the amazing thing is, normally
when you get big diamonds,
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they're only very low quality.
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But this was extremely clear,
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what we call ice material.
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And the way it presented itself in
the rough was a freak of nature.
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Then what runs
through your head is,
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I have to cut this
stone.
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When it was
finished, I was convinced
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that we made the most
beautiful diamond in existence.
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Two hundred and three carats.
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We called it
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{\an8}the Millennium Star.
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Well, you can imagine how
I feel. It's beautiful.
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If the board had asked me, "Where
shouldn't we display this diamond,"
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{\an8}the place I would have
said to you was Greenwich,
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{\an8}because, you know, that Millennium Dome
wasn't an area to display diamonds.
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I never really had a
look all round Greenwich,
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because it was a bit of
a dump place, I think.
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It was sort of run-down
after the Second World War.
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It was a long way from De
Beers in the center of London.
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The police are not
close by, as such.
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East London isn't exactly known as
being the natural home of diamonds
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and precious things,
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not least because it's
been a hotbed of crime
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for as long as it's existed.
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The notorious Kray brothers
came from out here.
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Endless gangsters were
based out in that area,
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and yet De Beers were putting on an almost
obscene display of incredible wealth.
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Maybe that wasn't
such a good idea.
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The Dome was basically a
tent with a flat, concrete floor,
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and nothing else.
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So, it must have been
red rag to a bull
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that some thieves would be
looking at this, thinking,
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"How can I actually steal
these particular diamonds?"
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We had to build something there
that enabled us to be ensured
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that when the diamonds were put
in there, they couldn't be stolen.
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First of all, we bought
a hexagonal vault,
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which was three-feet thick with
these metal bars inside it.
240
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This would stop people
trying to drill through it...
241
00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,519
{\an8}...and withstand the penetration of
something like an armored vehicle
242
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trying to smash
through the side walls.
243
00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,399
It had various
types of detectors.
244
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Any movement from literally
a fly would set these things off.
245
00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,559
At the same time,
inside were cameras,
246
00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,159
and these were fed back
to our security room
247
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with three men on duty 24 hours a day
to cover whatever was going on inside.
248
00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,439
Now the next thing
is the display cabinets.
249
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They were very important,
250
00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:26,959
and I remember paying
something like £56,000
251
00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,039
for this impregnable glass.
252
00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:33,879
It was stated by the company that
a demented person with an ice axe
253
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after half an hour might be
able to penetrate the glass.
254
00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:45,599
It was a Fort Knox,
no doubt about it.
255
00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,760
{\an8}Ray told me the
target they was going for
256
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{\an8}was Millennium Star.
257
00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:21,960
Crazy.
258
00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,319
It was a little bit
farfetched, I think,
259
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a bit too out there.
260
00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,280
Too much attention
around the Dome.
261
00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,040
It was just too big.
It was too public.
262
00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,280
But Ray told me,
263
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if we can pull it off...
264
00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,160
it was going to be the
biggest heist of all time.
265
00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:55,279
The gang took 120 mailbags,
holding £2.5 million in banknotes.
266
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♪ Get money, money Get
money, money, money ♪
267
00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,240
♪ We only wanna
make that cash... ♪
268
00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:02,839
Robbers got away with
nearly three tons of gold bullion
269
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:04,800
from the Brink's-Mat
vault at Heathrow Airport.
270
00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:06,439
♪ Make that stack ♪
271
00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:07,520
♪ Watch this... ♪
272
00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:12,079
The three armed
raiders emptied 126 boxes
273
00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,080
of millions of pounds'
worth of jewelry.
274
00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,800
♪ Cash make me feel better... ♪
275
00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:24,039
The mugger threatened him,
forcing him to hand over £292 million.
276
00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:25,239
♪ ...make me feel better ♪
277
00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,319
♪ Go through the cash
and stack 'em up ♪
278
00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:28,719
♪ Stack 'em up ♪
279
00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,039
♪ Double the cash
and stack 'em up ♪
280
00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:32,719
{\an8}♪ Stack 'em, stack 'em up ♪
281
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,799
♪ Get money, money Get
money, money, money... ♪
282
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{\an8}Ray said I was
gonna get a million quid.
283
00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:42,680
A million quid
sounds good to me.
284
00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,760
What did Ray tell you
he was gonna do with the diamonds?
285
00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,840
Obviously he's not gonna nick
them and put them in the cupboard.
286
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,360
Ray had a buyer, but I
don't know who it was.
287
00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:56,560
I didn't want to
know, to be honest.
288
00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:58,799
I didn't say no.
289
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,480
I left it a couple of
days, and in that time,
290
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,879
I went up to have
a look for myself.
291
00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,359
♪ Double my Double my,
double my, double my ♪
292
00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:08,120
I took my
daughter Beth with me.
293
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,679
Just thought if I had a
family or a daughter with me,
294
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,280
then I would just sort of
blend into everyone else.
295
00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:21,399
There was never a plan with
Dad. He's a very impulsive person.
296
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,319
So it was literally just wake
up and he was like, "Right."
297
00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,200
"Got a day out planned. Get in the
car. We're gonna go up to the Dome."
298
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,999
It was like, "This is a great day
out. You know, this is so fun for us."
299
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,520
Not knowing the reason why
we were there.
300
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,439
We walked into
the Dome, walked around.
301
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:45,600
Uh, they had a show on inside, some
display of people on ropes and stuff.
302
00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,800
There was some big
thing you walk through.
303
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,359
{\an8}It's like a giant person, and
you walked the whole way through it,
304
00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:56,800
{\an8}and then, like, all the organs
were, like, there, next to you.
305
00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:58,799
Giant. In your face.
306
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,400
{\an8}I don't know who came up with that
idea, but it was creepy as hell.
307
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,360
I just thought it
was crap, to be honest.
308
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:09,280
Thought it was shit.
309
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,719
Millennium Dome
organizers shocked the world today
310
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,159
by announcing they've
sold hardly any tickets.
311
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:16,759
This is due to bad advertising
312
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,039
or because it sounds like the
most rubbish day out ever.
313
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,000
Easy, boy, it's okay.
314
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,199
There was this general
feeling of failure about it.
315
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,199
What's wrong with the Dome?
316
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,319
I mean, there must be
something wrong with it.
317
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:30,920
It got to the point
318
00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,760
where it was becoming the
butt of comedians' jokes.
319
00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:37,720
Where have I taken you, then?
320
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:39,440
The Millennium Dome.
321
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:41,919
Oh yeah, I'm really
sorry about that.
322
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,039
Ladies
and gentlemen,
323
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,919
we are honored to present
the De Beers Millennium Star.
324
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,200
The only exciting
thing was the diamonds.
325
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:58,720
As you walk in, there was, I think,
11 blue diamonds in a cabinet.
326
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,039
I remember thinking,
"Wow, look. They're so pretty."
327
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,319
Every girl, you're like,
"Diamonds, I want a diamond."
328
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:08,160
And I actually remember asking my dad.
I was like, "Can I have one one day?"
329
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:10,559
Maybe he took that
too seriously.
330
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:16,320
And then the main Millennium
Star was in, like, a circle glass.
331
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,320
It was something to see.
332
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:22,400
I was amazed how big it was.
333
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,480
The colors of it, it was
beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
334
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,360
It just gleams in every
way you look at it.
335
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,519
Thinking about it now, bit of a piss-take,
wasn't it, putting it where it was.
336
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:42,319
The East End and that part of London,
it's a rat race of thieves, isn't it?
337
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,399
And you go and put
it in the lion's den.
338
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,840
I was thinking, "Obviously
we've gotta have it."
339
00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,920
Don't know anything
about diamonds.
340
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,000
You know, it's not my field.
341
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,640
So I knew it was gonna be a lot heavier
than what I've ever done before.
342
00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:13,760
It was a big risk.
343
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,160
But I just thought
we could do this.
344
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,600
It's not gonna be
easy, but we can do it.
345
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,080
I wanted to be involved
in something really big.
346
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,560
And it couldn't get
much bigger, could it?
347
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:28,560
So, why not? Let's go for it.
348
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,439
We needed to figure out how
we're gonna get inside the Dome,
349
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:37,680
get into the vault,
350
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:39,279
get the diamond,
351
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,240
and then get away without
being caught by the police.
352
00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:46,240
But me and Ray couldn't
do it on our own.
353
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,240
You can't do a job of this
caliber with two people.
354
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,360
You do need a big team
to cover every base.
355
00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,680
The first thing, we needed someone
who could get into the diamond cases.
356
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,720
Someone who was quite good
with tools and stuff like that.
357
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,760
{\an8}Bob Adams was, like, a handyman.
358
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,759
Bob was always joking that he
was like Joe Pesci from Goodfellas,
359
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,119
that sort of character.
360
00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:28,360
Funny how? How am I funny?
361
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,439
Get the fuck out of here, Tommy.
362
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,559
Took the whole job like it was just
another day of going to the office.
363
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,799
I almost had him.
I almost had him.
364
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:46,960
The second
person that we needed
365
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,160
was someone who could handle
things if it got rough.
366
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,840
Someone who wouldn't
hesitate to do the business.
367
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,279
{\an8}Bill Cockram was Ray's
right-hand man, really.
368
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,400
Any security guards try to get involved,
then Bill would be there to sort them out.
369
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,479
The next
person that we needed
370
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,919
was someone to be in charge of
the technical side of things.
371
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,000
From 9-90, he's
near Forest Road towards Kingswood.
372
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:24,520
{\an8}Aldo was younger.
373
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,079
Straight across.
374
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,920
He knew Ray and Bill
from South London.
375
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,879
I thought he was a
bit of a ladies' man.
376
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,440
You would never think he'd
be into doing things like this.
377
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:39,959
But he... he obviously was.
378
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:46,360
The final person we needed
379
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,400
was someone who had a lot of
experience doing robberies.
380
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:54,800
Open it.
381
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,319
So, that's why
we come onto Terry.
382
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,200
Terry was a fucking nightmare.
383
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,840
{\an8}He was a proper East
End gangster, Terry was.
384
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,480
Wouldn't blink an eye at pulling
a gun out and shooting someone.
385
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:13,920
Nothing fazed him.
386
00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:15,360
Thank you.
387
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:18,680
So, we had a team.
388
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,559
Now we need to get to work.
389
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,799
Ray was talking about
how to get into the Dome
390
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:33,200
when it closed at night.
391
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,880
Obviously, you can't
drive into the Dome
392
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,200
'cause of all the
obstacles in the way.
393
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,040
So I went back to the Dome
and surveyed the place.
394
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,800
I just started slowly walking
around the Dome again,
395
00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,920
trying to figure out
a way to get inside.
396
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,640
The outside skin of the Dome,
397
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,240
it's got shutters
where you can get in.
398
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,000
Massive big roller shutters.
399
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,560
I think they're made of
Perspex and aluminum.
400
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:20,920
Outside the Dome,
401
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,640
there were these
really big steel gates.
402
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,560
I knew it was gonna take something
big to smash through them.
403
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:34,800
Then I realized that
404
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,560
there was a lot of building
work going on around the Dome.
405
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:41,640
And I just thought,
406
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:43,999
"Why don't we use a JCB?"
407
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,560
A JCB could go through
any part of the Dome.
408
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,360
It'll knock every obstacle
down along the way.
409
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:02,639
You know, it's like a tank.
410
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:07,520
A tank in disguise.
411
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,239
I knew the JCB was
going to work, 100%.
412
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,719
I stole the JCB,
413
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,760
put it into a little safe house
that we had, uh, to get it ready.
414
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:29,320
And that was that.
415
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,600
The diamond case
was really thick glass.
416
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,120
You're not gonna put a diamond like that
in just behind a piece of double glazing.
417
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,080
You can stand all day
with a sledgehammer.
418
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:54,920
Not gonna go through.
419
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,120
So, we were thinking
420
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:00,680
for hours and hours
421
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,600
how to get through those cases.
422
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:06,400
And then,
423
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:09,160
I realized that
424
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,800
you have to weaken it first.
425
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,160
I suggested that
we use a Hilti gun.
426
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,920
A Hilti gun is a nail gun that
fires nails through steel.
427
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,639
Everyone was a bit
skeptical about it.
428
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,280
They didn't think the nail gun would
be strong enough to break the glass.
429
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,759
I said, "Let me get
one and then show you."
430
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,160
I knew it would work.
431
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,040
He's a one-off, Dad.
432
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,839
Yeah, I don't think it was ever
on his mind to just be normal
433
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,400
and have a normal job.
434
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,520
But he's in a different world.
435
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,920
I come from a
gypsy traveling family.
436
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,079
When we were kids,
437
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,760
we would be in a caravan traveling
from one place to the other.
438
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,400
We didn't really socialize with a
lot of people, only our own people.
439
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,079
Gypsies don't go to an office
and go into work nine-to-five.
440
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,760
We do things differently.
441
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,759
I'm dyslexic, and I really struggle
with my reading and writing.
442
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,920
So, I was pulled out of
school when I was 12.
443
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,920
And then I was going
to work with my dad.
444
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:20,120
From then on,
445
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,720
every day was just
something to do with crime.
446
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:28,480
And I was getting good at it.
447
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,320
{\an8}I went back to
the Dome a dozen times.
448
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,799
{\an8}The vault itself was
so big and so thick,
449
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,480
you're not gonna get in without
digging and it'd take a long time.
450
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,640
And if you use explosives, the
diamond could end up in the river.
451
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,400
So, what's the point of that?
452
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,560
How the fuck are we going
to get into that vault?
453
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,759
The vault door was made of solid
steel, about two-feet thick.
454
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,839
It needed two men to
open or shut the thing.
455
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,440
That's how heavy it was.
456
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:15,240
I was completely confident
that it was pretty impregnable.
457
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,879
What if someone had the code
to the vault? Could they get in that way?
458
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,840
No. The vault door
was on a time lock.
459
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,839
It would be set for
the display times...
460
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,719
...which were nine
o'clock in the morning
461
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,160
and finishing at about six
o'clock in the evening.
462
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,960
So, when the doors close,
you set the time lock,
463
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:36,800
and you can't open it.
464
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,199
Of course, there's always somebody
who's probably brighter than you are
465
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,000
who may be able to break in,
466
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:48,560
but, uh, I felt that it would be
a very special team to do that.
467
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,679
The plan was always to do it
when the Dome was closed at night.
468
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,480
But I was thinking,
469
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,440
"When's the best time to
go? When the door's open."
470
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,880
The only problem doing it in the daytime
is obviously people being around.
471
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,400
Someone could get on their phone
and call the police straightaway.
472
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:20,480
Someone could get hurt.
473
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:24,840
But there was no other choice.
474
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:27,800
You had to go in there
when the door was open.
475
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,320
So, we needed to figure out the
best time in the day to go in.
476
00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:38,240
And that's when Ray said
he had a brother-in-law
477
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,640
that worked at the Dome.
478
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:45,720
He said he could,
uh, help us out.
479
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,080
I was a highly respected
policeman in South London.
480
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,440
I remember my first day
within the job in Peckham...
481
00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:01,920
and within less than 30 minutes,
482
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:07,480
{\an8}there was a struggle, and it ended up
with a knife at my throat like this.
483
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,440
It was, um, pretty
scary and frightening.
484
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,280
But in 1999,
485
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:23,240
I had the opportunity to work
on the Millennium Dome team.
486
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,600
They were a team to patrol the
outside perimeter of the Dome.
487
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,280
I can't say it was the most
exciting job I've ever done.
488
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:35,959
One of the things
they did was offer
489
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,040
complimentary tickets
to the policing teams.
490
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:40,920
So, I gave them to my wife,
491
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,240
and, uh, they've ended
up with her sister.
492
00:35:47,720 --> 00:35:49,280
I was on duty that night
493
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:51,360
patrolling outside.
494
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,640
My wife's sister came
out with her boyfriend.
495
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,440
He introduced himself
as Ray Betson.
496
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,920
He said he was a
property developer.
497
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:10,039
He clearly had a good
lifestyle, money.
498
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,880
He was very smartly dressed.
499
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:13,959
He was very suave.
500
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,119
I mean, the best
way to describe him,
501
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,439
he looked a bit like a James Bond
figure. He could've been James Bond.
502
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,400
We spoke for about a couple of
minutes, and Ray thanked me,
503
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,760
and, uh, you know,
they went on their way.
504
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,879
I'd see Ray at
family gatherings.
505
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:48,640
And he was
always pleasant to talk to.
506
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:51,320
Very charming.
507
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,599
Always really polite
to my mother-in-law,
508
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,679
my father-in-law, and my wife.
509
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,919
You know, always seemed
the perfect gentleman.
510
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,440
Then, one day,
511
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,439
Ray turned up at my house.
512
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,880
Ray said to us,
513
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,839
"Would it bother you if I told
you I'm not a property developer,
514
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:25,160
I'm an armed robber"?
515
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,280
I was thinking maybe
he's winding me up.
516
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,240
But he was very sincere.
517
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:39,840
Very controlled.
518
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,160
And then he says,
519
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,520
"I've come up with a way
to give you some money."
520
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,240
"You provide me
with information."
521
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,640
"As a result of that,
522
00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:56,080
I'll be able to
give you £250,000."
523
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:01,080
I felt
524
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,560
a sort of disbelief, if you
like, that it was even happening.
525
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,239
Ray made it clear
526
00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:13,319
that he was very professional,
527
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:17,280
he led a very trusted
team of armed robbers,
528
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,879
and that everything was planned
down to the last detail,
529
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:23,320
and nothing could go wrong.
530
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:30,399
What Ray was suggesting
was that I joined his team
531
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:31,800
as the inside man,
532
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:36,000
so that his team
commits armed robbery
533
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,280
based on the information
that I was providing.
534
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,680
I didn't like the idea
of committing a crime,
535
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,839
but £250,000 is a lot of money.
536
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,200
Ray told me we were gonna hit
the Dome first thing in the morning.
537
00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:04,639
After sort of ten o'clock,
538
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,120
coaches started coming in.
539
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,000
Then it was busy until
it closed at night.
540
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,359
Inside the Dome,
it was a big, big space.
541
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:17,040
So, you know, that area
would be moderately quiet.
542
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,679
Ray said that at that time,
security guards were absolute shit.
543
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:27,720
There was just, like, four or five people
walking around with a walkie-talkie.
544
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,960
So, going in at that time in the morning
is the only time it could be done.
545
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:50,480
This is the
Millennium Dome.
546
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:57,560
The Dome was built on a peninsula...
so there's just one way out.
547
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:01,839
The traffic at the
time was pretty heavy.
548
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,200
Never gonna get
away with a van or car.
549
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:07,759
It was just too risky.
550
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:14,559
The last
robbery didn't work...
551
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:17,680
...but the getaway was perfect.
552
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,520
So why don't we use
another speedboat?
553
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,639
You're on the Thames,
right by the river.
554
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:27,640
Best thing to use.
555
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:33,280
Luckily,
556
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,599
Bill Cockram knew a
boatman and spoke to him,
557
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,000
and he got him on board.
558
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:39,840
And who was that?
559
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:44,440
{\an8}Kevin Meredith.
560
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,000
He was quite handy
with a speedboat.
561
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,040
So that's the getaway sorted.
562
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,159
So, we're getting close.
563
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:28,200
We were all ready to go.
564
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:31,880
Everything was in position.
565
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:37,560
Really thought it'd work.
566
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:40,280
The plan was
567
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:42,640
JCB would come along here.
568
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,000
This is where we'd crash
through the side of the Dome.
569
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,600
Drive around the Dome
to the diamond vault.
570
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,960
Bill and Bob would
go into the vault,
571
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:57,760
get the diamonds.
572
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,880
The speedboat was gonna
come over to here,
573
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:03,800
pick everyone up from there.
574
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,640
The speedboat goes across
the Thames to Terry,
575
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,799
and then Terry drives
away with everyone in.
576
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,000
And we all live happily
ever after.
577
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,560
This is a huge
risk you're taking, isn't it?
578
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,680
Did you think about the
consequences if it didn't work out?
579
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:31,560
Um...
580
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:37,360
I just blocked it out.
581
00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:43,160
I wanted to carry on
what we were doing.
582
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,320
This job would
cement a legacy for me.
583
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,400
And I'd get a lot of
respect for doing it.
584
00:42:58,560 --> 00:42:59,560
I'd be someone.
585
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,719
Hi, how's it going?
586
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:05,960
But, uh...
587
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,400
Obviously, I adored
my daughters.
588
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,240
And I wanted to slow down and
start being more responsible.
589
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:20,240
Go a straight life.
590
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,680
So, I decided to myself,
591
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,400
this was gonna be my last job.
592
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,760
Two days' time, I could be
sitting on a lot of money.
593
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:38,320
Or not.
594
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:50,960
For a crime
to take place,
595
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,120
there has to be the mindset
of somebody wants to do it.
596
00:43:56,720 --> 00:43:59,360
There has to be a target
for them to steal.
597
00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:02,880
And there has to be nobody
around to stop them.
598
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,760
But what this gang of criminals didn't
know was that we were following them.
599
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,960
We knew that they were
planning something big.
600
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,199
We just didn't know
what the target was
601
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,160
or when they were gonna strike.
602
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,000
But whatever plan they had,
603
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:30,999
we were gonna be
there to stop them.