Months of preparation before the crime, tunnels dug for 3 weeks. For the film "bank robbery" in the plot of the authenticity of the outside world has been speculation, the British authorities also do not deny. However, in the film is about to premiere at the end of February this year in the United Kingdom, when the year involved in this "bank robbery" of a robber was recently accepted by the British media interviews, for the first time disclosed the heist little-known behind-the-scenes story.
It is reported that the robber, who did not want to disclose his name, has been released, is now more than 70 years old, and currently resides in a European country. According to reports, the gang had been preparing for the bank robbery for months, first digging a 40-foot tunnel from the basement of a nearby leather store.
The robber, who was a member of the gang back then, recalled, "Digging the tunnel took a total of **** three weeks, and in order to prevent alerting the bank and the staff of the store next door, we could only operate on weekends, i.e., from Friday night until early Monday morning the following week."
Avoiding the truth:
'Nude photos of princesses' remain unsolved mystery. When the road led to the Chicken Inn next door to Lloyds Bank, the robbers had a problem because they were faced with the hard concrete reinforcement of the underground vault. "We had to resort to explosives," recalls the robber. Because the bank was convinced that the vault's cement reinforcement was impenetrable, it did not install an alarm. When the tunnel was finally opened, the robbers removed a total of 8 tons of rubble from it.
The robbers recalled that they opened 268 safes in total***. When they opened one of the safes, they were surprised to find that it belonged to British Chancellor Quentin Hogg. The robber was noncommittal when the reporter asked for confirmation of the rumored nude photos of Princess Margaret. He said, "I can't talk about that subject. But we found many guns. Most disturbingly, we also found numerous obscene photos of pedophiles. Being disgusted, we deliberately opened these boxes so that the police could pursue the owners of these photos." Forced to work in a hurry, the robbers were unable to examine all the contents of the safe and ended up stealing gold bricks and jewelry worth ￡500,000 at the time.
Extraordinary twist: Radio enthusiast captures signal. What the robbers never dreamed of was that at about 11 o'clock on the night of September 11, 1971, when they were busy, a radio enthusiast named Robert Rowlands inadvertently captured the signal between the robbers in the tunnels and the lookout on the ground between the wireless walkie-talkie signal, which he then reported to the local police. Unfortunately, while the police engineers, who were on a weekend vacation, were recalled one by one, the robbers' conversation over the intercom broke down.
The only judgment police could get was that the group of robbers was located in a 10-mile radius of Wimpole Street. Police traced the suspected location of the crime to Lloyds Bank. Sigh, although at this time the robbers were working in the bank's underground vault, but because the police saw the business hall door intact at that time, even beat a retreat. Until the 13th business hall opened, the staff only found that the bank was robbed.