Brink's-Mat robbery deposit burglary in April 2015. The Brink's-Mat robbery occurred early on 26 November 1983 when six robbers broke into the Brink's-Mat warehouse, Unit 7 of the Heathrow International Trading Estate near Heathrow Airport in the west of Greater London. It was described as "the crime of the century". The gang gained entry to the warehouse from security guard Anthony Black. Once inside, they poured petrol over staff and threatened them with a lit match if they did not reveal the combination numbers of the vault. The robbers thought that they were going to steal £3.2 million in cash, but they
The Man in the Brown Suit on the 22nd, Rayburn staggers into Anne's cabin having been stabbed. Anne dresses his wound but he is not grateful and leaves after an altercation with her. Colonel Race recounts the story of the theft of a hundred thousand pounds' worth of diamonds some years before, attributed to the son of a South African gold magnate, John Eardsley, and his friend Harry Lucas. The two friends had found new diamonds in South America, which they brought to South Africa for verification. John and his friend were arrested and John's father, Sir Laurence, disowned his son. The war started a week