Bullion Robbery
It was the biggest bullion robbery of all time. Twenty-six million pounds in gold, stolen from a warehouse at Heathrow. There was still an hour to go before daybreak when the early shift of security guards at the Brinks-Mat company warehouse at Hounslow, west London, turned up for work on the morning of Saturday 26 November 1983. At exactly 6.30 a.m. security supervisor Mick Scouse turned his keys in the locks of the staff entrance and let in his four shivering and bleary-eyed colleagues. Ron Clarke, Richard Holliday, Robin Riseley and Peter Bentley had all volunteered for the unpopular Saturday shift. A fifth man on the roster, Tony Black, was late and Scouse made a mental note to speak to him about his timekeeping. From the outside Unit 7 looked like just another ugly brick and steel goods shed, a soulless box, strictly functional like thousands of others. But inside it was a different world. Unit 7 was one of the most secure buildings in Britain, with an impenetrable steel co...