![]() ![]() In 2015, aged 64, John ‘Goldfinger’ Palmer (played by Tom Cullen in The Gold) was fatally shot outside his home by a mystery gunman. Reader was convicted, served three years of his sentence, and was released in 2019 at the age of 79, suffering from ill health. In 2015, Reader masterminded the Hatton Garden heist, in which a gang of six men drilled into safety deposit boxes in the basement of the Hatton Garden Safety Deposit company and stole over £13 million’s worth of jewellery. That though, was far from his only, or his most famous, conviction. Brian Readerīrian Reader, a lieutenant of Kenneth Noye, was sentenced to nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen bullion from the Brink’s-Mat robbery. Alan Decabral, an eyewitness who had refused protection, was fatally shot in 2000.)Īfter killing Cameron in 1996, Noye went on the run in Spain, from where he was extradited and in 2000, convicted with a life sentence. (That case was dramatised in the ITV one-off film starring Joanne Froggatt, Danielle Cable: Eyewitness which told the story of Cameron’s girlfriend, who entered witness protection after giving evidence. Two years later, he fatally stabbed Stephen Cameron in a road rage attack. Kenneth Noye, played by Jack Lowden in The Gold, was acquitted of the murder of undercover police officer John Fordham, but was convicted for committing another murder after his release from prison.Īfter serving seven years of his 14-year Brink’s-Mat sentence for conspiracy to handle stolen bullion, freemason Noye was released from prison in 1994. Without wanting publicity for his work, which some members of the Met had seen as a betrayal, Boyce personally gathered evidence on the Lawrence murder suspects and was reported to have used his connections to make key documents accessible to the Lawrence family’s legal team, helping in their shamefully long fight for justice. ![]() While there in April 1995, according to this 1999 article by The Independent, he voluntarily assisted with the Macpherson inquiry into the Stephen Lawrence’s murder case, outraged by the injustice of the initial investigation, and by the insensitive police treatment of Stephen’s mother Doreen and key witness Duwayne Brooks.īoyce described the Lawrence murder probe as “indefensible” lacking “investigative rigour” and put in writing that “racial prejudice, either conscious or unconscious” could not be ruled out. Here’s a brief overview of where some of The Gold’s real-life counterparts ended up after the credits rolled.Ī former soldier, counter-terrorism officer, and the commander of the task force that investigated Brink’s-Mat, Boyce went on to become head of corporate security for Hill Samuel merchant bank. The investigation has continued decades after the event, as the cash was followed into international drug imports, original convictions were spent, and several suspects were killed in gangland executions years later. It remains to be seen if The Gold will return to BBC One to tell the rest of the Brink’s-Mat story, but if does, there’s plenty of material. By 1986 they’d put away a handful of villains who committed or profited from the heist, but that was far from the extent of it. In the final moments of BBC drama The Gold, the special taskforce investigators come to a ground-shaking realisation: all this time, they’ve only been chasing half of the swag, £13 million of the £26 million’s worth of bullion stolen in the infamous 1983 Brink’s-Mat bullion robbery. Laura agrees to go undercover, and her journey through the ranks of the Vampires will take her to the edge of morality and sanity.ĪKA The Carmilla-Gangland Undercover crossover no one wants and/or not the Carmilla biker AU that you would expect.Warning: contains spoilers for The Gold episodes 1 – 6. After Laura is caught shoplifting just to make ends meet, she is offered a choice between going to jail and going undercover for the police and infiltrate the Vampires, a notorious biker gang made up of Silas University graduates. ![]() Silas University is gone, and her journalism degree means nothing.
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