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The 10 biggest British heists

1) Securitas depot robbery, Tonbridge, Kent 53,116,760

As he drove home on the evening of February 21, 2006, men posing as police officers kidnapped Colin Dixon, the manager of the Securitas depot in Tonbridge, which handled used cash for the Bank of England. At the same time, another group of fake policemen kidnapped Mr Dixon's wife and eight year old son. The manager was told his family would be harmed if he did not cooperate.

In the early hours of the following morning, all three were van cleef and arpels black clover necklace knock off taken to the depot at gunpoint where the copy van cleef and arpels black clover necklace 14 members of staff were tied up. Less than two hours later, the gang left with over 53m in cash.

Since the robbery the biggest in British history police have arrested several people and recovered around 20m in cash.

2) Graff jeweller's, London 40,000,000

On August 6 this year, two men in suits walked into the firm's New Bond Street store, drew handguns and took 43 very expensive items of jewellery, much of it in diamonds. They briefly took a female members of staff hostage and fired shots into the air as they fled, before changing vehicles repeatedly and escaping.

3) Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Centre robbery, London 40,000,000

Valerio Viccei, an Italian lawyer's son turned armed robber, moved to London in 1986 and, in July the next year, led a small gang to the Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Centre where they pretended they wanted to open a deposit box. When they got into the vault, they drew guns, subdued the staff and hanged 'closed' signs in the window, before letting in further gang members. They left with an estimated 40m but some estimates put the haul as high as 60m.

Viccei fled the country and was only arrested when he returned to Britain to ship his Ferrari Testarossa to South America. He was later deported to Italy to serve the remainder of his sentence. In April 2000, during day release from prison, he died in a shoot out with police.

4) Northern Bank robbery, Belfast, Northern Ireland 26,400,000

A gang of armed men disguised as police officers visited the homes of two staff members of the Northern Bank on Sunday 19 December 2004 and held their families at gunpoint. The officials were told to go to the bank the next day, work as normal, stay on after closing, and let the gang in, which they did. The criminals escaped with 10m of uncirculated sterling banknotes branded as Northern Bank, 5.5m of used Northern Bank sterling notes, 4.5m of circulated sterling notes issued by other banks, and small amounts of other currencies, largely Euros and US dollars. Most has yet to be recovered.

5) Brinks Mat Robbery, Heathrow, England 26,000,000

In November 1983, a gang of robbers aided by a security guard targeted a warehouse at Heathrow Airport, west of London, expecting to find 3m in cash. However, they found three tons of gold bullion worth around 26m and escaped with it.

The sudden movement of large amounts of money through a bank in Bristol alerted the police who also found a family connection between the gang and a security guard. The 6,000 gold bars have never been recovered.

6) Graff jeweller's, London 23,000,000

A Serbian criminal group targeted Graff's in a raid in 2003, when two men armed with revolvers took 47 pieces of diamond jewellery in three minutes. A police search of one of the gang's flat in London recovered a 500,000 blue diamond ring wrapped in clingfilm and hidden in a pot of face cream.

7) Midland Bank Clearing Centre, Salford, Manchester 6,600,000

The driver of a Securicor cash delivery van, Graham Huckerby, was forced by a gang to let them in. They escaped with 6.6m in cash. The robbery remains unsolved and none of the money has ever been recovered.

8) The Security Express robbery, London 6,000,000

On Easter Monday 1983, a gang broke into the Security Express depot in Shoreditch, east London, and escaped with around 6m.

The robbery was masterminded by John Knight, the brother the former husband of actress Barbara Windsor, who was later jailed.

9) The Great Train Robbery 2,600,000

On August 8, 1963 armed robbers including the recently released Ronnie Biggs stole 2.6m in cash from the Glasgow to London Royal Mail train, after bringing it to a halt with a fake van cleef copy necklace stop signal.

Train driver Jack Mills, who was struck on the head during the robbery, never fully recovered from his injuries and died in 1970.

Most of the money worth about 40m in today's terms was recovered in the months following the robbery.

10) Baker Street robbery, London 1,500,000

Although the cash haul does not appear to compare to more modern heists, in today's money it would have been worth over 16m.

The robbery took place on September 11, 1971, after a gang tunnelled into the vault holding safety deposit boxes from a nearby shop. The police were warned about the crime after the gang were overheard by a radio ham but, despite checking the bank, failed to realise the robbers were inside.

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