BS: New biggest UK bank job

Subject: BS: New biggest UK bank job
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 03:12 AM

Actually not sure how big.
No one yet allowed back in to count what is left.
Speculation is that 50m pounds sterling has gone.
2 arrests so far.

Subject: RE: BS: New biggest UK bank job
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 04:29 AM

I thought the biggest UK bank job was chairman of Barclays. They seem to rob me blind, anyway..... ;-)
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: New biggest UK bank job
From: David C. Carter
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 04:47 AM

Heard it was 25m.They are all thieves anyway.If it was 25m,they'll shunt it up to 50m,that would be true to form.You can't announce a robbery,where the thieves got away with £4 70p!

David

Subject: RE: BS: New biggest UK bank job
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 05:12 AM

Three people have been arrested in connection with this.... seems a lady walked into her local building society with a big bundle of used notes to deposit... still bound up with the label of the establishment they had been stolen from! It was recognised by a sharp eyed cashier and authorities alerted.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: New biggest UK bank job
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 06:15 AM

Sounds convincing but, in the last biggest raid 2 people suddenly became multimillionairs just afterwards.
One had 2 million in notes in a wheelie bin in his garden.
Police became suspicious of the other when a cloud of smouldering bank notes spewed from his chimney and settled over the neighbourhood.
Neither was charged because the notes could not be positively linked to the robbery!

Subject: RE: BS: New biggest UK bank job
From: gnomad
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 06:38 AM

I wonder...

You have just stolen an obscene amount of cash, so much that the sheer bulk of it is a problem, and far more than you can comfortably launder or spend. You take a small portion of it (still a v.large sum) and distribute it to people who do not know you, buy junk off them at stupid prices, even shove a bit through a few letterboxes. It will only take a few of your patsies to draw attention to themselves by trying to use/bank the cash and suddenly the cops are chasing down dozens of false leads, while you walk quietly away with the bulk of the loot.

Subject: RE: BS: New biggest UK bank job
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 06:42 AM

The Grat Train Robbers were rumbled when one of them tried to buy a car using the method gnomad just outlined,

Subject: RE: BS: New biggest UK bank job
From: GUEST,DB
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 07:59 AM

Welcome to the UK 2006 in which incompetent robbers rob an establishment 'guarded' by incompetent security staff and are pursued by incompetent police. The police will probably end up shooting dead an innocent Argentinian, or something. No! That last bit is too silly for words! That couldn't possibly happen in the UK, could it?

Subject: RE: BS: New biggest UK bank job
From: Barry Finn
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 12:10 PM

Geoff, I understand. It's must be simply driving you mad. Sometimes when I go into a lending or banking institution I become frozen a stiff.
Barry

Subject: RE: BS: New biggest UK bank job
From: ard mhacha
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 12:31 PM

Another IRA heist?.

Subject: RE: BS: New biggest UK bank job
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 12:35 PM

Firstly the security system must be reviewed. You can have all the alarms in the country, but if they give a guy a set of keys to take home it will soon break down. Three of the major banks released annual profits within the last six weeks and they make this robbery look small. It's said money has an International language, and money talks. In time you may find so do the smaller members of the team who carried out the raid.

Subject: RE: BS: New biggest UK bank job
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 12:41 PM

Just like the December 04 raid in Belfast ard, No forensic evidence linking anyone as yet.One young bank teller halled in for it and released after three weeks of questioning.It was said on the television news last night concerning the 04 raid that intelligence still have nothing to go on. They mustn't have visited this site.

Subject: RE: BS: New biggest UK bank job
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:12 PM

I'm not going to suggest the thread be re-labelled, as that might upset Shambles, but... Most news reports have been at pains to identify it as the highest cash value British bank job. It is, as yet, uncertain whether the haul was greater than that in Northern Ireland in 2004

CHEERS

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: New biggest UK bank job
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 02:28 PM

All three arrested now released on bail. Two from Forest Hill and one from Bromley. Come on Sarf Lunnon.

Some bags of notes found in white van at Ashford International Hotel. Wonder if they eurostarred?