Heist: The Northern Bank Robbery, review: a well-made overview of Britain's biggest bank heist – but without any answers

5 July 2021 • 10:29pm
Darragh MacIntyre looks back over the evidence
Credit: BBC
It was the politest of 999 calls. Chris Ward, an employee of the Northern Bank headquarters in Belfast, was reporting a crime. “Hello, how you doing. I wonder if you could help me? I just actually went through an ordeal of an abduction,” said Ward, before explaining that he had been used to rob the bank. “How much are we talking?” asked the operator. “Thirty million altogether.” The operator lets out a gasp: “My God.”
That was how police were first alerted to the biggest bank job in British history.

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