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The crime of armed robbery had been brought to a state almost of perfection in the 1970s thanks to police corruption, a new documentary reveals.
The final episode in BBC series Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty, which airs this evening, reveals how one of London s most senior police officers was believed to have helped suppress investigations and even took cuts of robbers ill-gotten gains.
Commander Hugh Moore, who was the third most senior officer in the City of London Police, was allegedly the greatest villain unhung , a fellow corrupt officer said.
Moore, who died from heart failure in 1993 while attempting an arrest, was described as a greedy b d by bent detective Phil Cuthbert, who talked of a £175,000 robbery on the Daily Express s payroll van in 1976 being a Hughie Moore job .