Lloyds Bank | Britain's Biggest Heists | S2E01

The real story behind the British heist film BANK JOB (2008). On a Saturday night in 1971 a gang of thieves tunnelled for 40ft into the vault of Lloyds Bank on Baker Street, central London. The robbers communicated via walkie-talkie and the signal was picked up by an amateur radio enthusiast, Robert Rowlands (interviews available) who reported the conversation to the police. A check of 700 banks failed, with Lloyds on Baker Street being one of those checked. With the vault door undisturbed, police assumed there was no other way of entry and left. The thieves gained entry through a 15 inch hole. Scrawled inside the safe, the criminals left the words: "Let Sherlock Holmes try to solve this". Four men were jailed in 1973 for their roles in the robbery. It has been suggested some of the stolen material contained sensitive information about the Royal Family. Interviews available with Ron Ratcliffe who was in the police surveillance team.
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[@Aristotelezz]

Nice to see this episode in real great quality! Thanx for posting!

[@leehanes]

Can’t believe they had the audacity in wanting to charge the man who gave them heads up about the robbery

[@Druzier]

I can't lie, I read this title like it was a new Lloyd Banks song! 😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏾‍♀️I used to love him.

[@Null04]

Pimp style gangster!

[@willlupe86]

G unit !!

[@caseysylvester4119]

Sammmmme

[@DeeJazzyMan]

Good documentary...very good movie

[@TheStonerification]

£2500 cheque from the bank as a reward for his help? That's pretty good for 1971.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

He spent it all on plastic surgery and a new identity !

[@joelellis7035]

What to do with that money? Put it in a bank? 😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

One last job ! But they all f...k up !

[@mohabatkhanmalak1161]

By now the freed robbers would have quietly already enjoyed their 'hard earned' takings, probably bought retirment homes in Spain, Portugal etc far, far away from good old England.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

This puts the great escape to shame . Well done Guy's .

[@josephrapoza4713]

cops want to bust they guy who helped them. No good deed goes unpunished...

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Great stuff . Keep 'em coming

[@waynewright5023]

The police should have started with banks *nearest* to the residence of Robert Rowlands, and then concentrically widened their search. They wasted a lot of valuable time widening their search away from the most likely target : someplace within walkie-talkie range of Rowlands' ham radio. The police might also have caught the robbers if the first officer had taken Rowlands' first call more seriously..

[@waylonpoteet118]

We will know exactly what happened an most of details on the year 2025! The whole thing an Scotland Yard had put a classified seal attached to information on the event with facts of the heist. Definitely interesting💰🤫

[@drabhand]

One more year

[@Delphic1]

“Meticulously planned”: Signs his real name to the lease.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

YEP , A SMALL MISTAKE .

[@chellynn7052]

That's hilarious they never had to pay a penny back lol

[@welcometothemovies9157]

Very likely the robbers had dirt on the right people and said let us keep the cash or else lol

[@davidjma7226]

Pics of Princess Margaret with a local lover on Mustique...... apparently.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Tea & a sarni ? Next week caviar and champagne guys .

[@chrisroothman2664]

On the weekend of 30 April to 01 May 1977 a similar robbery took place in Krugersdorp South Africa at the Standard Bank Branch. Empty shop, they tunneled 35 meters and also targeted thee safety deposit boxes. The perpetrators were never identified or arrested. Interesting that it is 7 years after this incident.

[@michaelbryant2071]

The Germans were pretty good at finding underground radios. They had mobile radio detection squads using radio triangulation to find transmissions.

[@markkeller5990]

I love the way the show doesn't know the difference between a Robbery and a Burglary. A Robbery is when you take something from another person or persons (usually employees) by force usually with firearms. A burglary is where you sneak in take stuff that does not belong to you and leave. This is clearly a burglary because no physical person(s) were accosted.

[@stephenburnage7687]

The police should have listened to the HAM operator. By design, CB radios are low power and intended for short distances.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

One of the best JOBS .

[@willlupe86]

Robert Rowland’s snitching is sad….

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

They know where his house lives !

[@kagolobyadalton5773]

The guy who tipped off the police was lucky not to be jailed for listening to un licenced 📻

[@jonkern9503]

Personally, I think 185 Baker is worth a visit. It's a neat piece of history that's also next to Madam Tussauds, Regent's Park, and The Sherlock Holmes Museum.

[@ajamesmcdermott]

I would have thought that finding a bank next door to a restaurant wouldn't have been that difficult. For some strange reason they couldn't put that together. Poor old Mr plod.

[@joelamthach5812]

… well .. from Sherlock Holmes to reality of London Police is a far distance!!!!!

[@MidnightWarrior1976]

Funny how the police were desperately trying to find a radio expert at the same time the actual expert was giving them solid advice -- and the police ignored him. The police were part of the problem. And there WERE photographs stolen for blackmail -- there was a movie made about it.

[@walden6272]

I'm not entirely convince they got the right people. The fact they can't even locate one stolen item from the vault. There should be some direct evidence to link them to the crime. So far they didn't show any here.

[@MrBignick88]

their accomplices pleaded guilty and would have made statements naming them as for the stolen items the bank never knew what was in the boxes and the people who owned them if they had have came forward would have been charged with tax evasion

[@1970kgaudi]

0

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Super Ham ! and the grass is growing under his feet !

[@robertschweppenhauser9891]

Very well orchestrated.

[@georgeramapuram]

There is a movie based on this. Anyone remember the name ?

[@gospelmawiafanai9344]

The Bank Job (Jason Satham etc ...)

[@corbharding1322]

They should have taken care of tunneling and debris remove while their name was on the lease, then conceal the tunnel and let someone else take the lease and then start a shop. One year, two, later break into the shop overnight and finish the job in a few hours. The documentary itself said they likely would have found a way to expunge the lease they signed if they had the time.

[@knowledgewind]

its funny how they never discus the purpose of this heist ... WE REMRMBEER MICHAEL X

[@kingsufi6164]

their lookout really fucked up hhhhhhhhhhaaahahaahah if only he kept quiet.

[@patriciapalmer1377]

Tripping over the exiting thieves two doors away in their dash for justice, silly prat, we're Scotland Yard for god's sake, they all think they're bloody Sherlock Holmes....

[@johng4093]

These cases always "shake the foundations of the country's establishment" or some such dramatic drivel.

[@josephrapoza4713]

The big mouth on the roof busted them..

[@odemaj8605]

It's funny how the UK and the USA switched genius, UK used to be the tech giant, towards late 18th century the USA began to dwarf their rivals in tech During the period this heist had taken place, the American police would have had better equipment and tech to solve this crime at his infancy. I regard the UK police as experts tea party,english speaking patrol unit.

[@edclark726]

Police had a Screw Loose!

[@jakehaymes4438]

Who is the retired police officer ? His English is shocking. 'Homed in' instead of 'honed in' - several other errors too.

[@terranceparsons5185]

I know who the main criminal is, Jason Statham!

[@quietdignityandgrace]

Question: Who insures Lloyds of London? Irony for sure.

[@markkeller5990]

They insure themselves by the premiums they collect from others they insure. It's pure profit. Furthermore, the items in the deposit boxes were unknown and some of them discrete as mentioned in the program. I'm sure they have a limit on what they will 'give' for a box. Likely $50,000 per box or such which is on the lease when they get the box maybe even less. Now this last part is pure speculation.

[@robertdavey1991]

Conspiracy theory might be significant if you consider what they left behind jewellery money other safe boxes If they were just common criminals they would take everything they would also would have enough time to empty all boxes

[@jakehaymes4438]

I think it might be Rowlands'

[@debeeriz]

l recon they got the idea from a jason statham film, typical of the police for wanting to proecute someone who showed them up in a bad light

[@tronghungdao251]

THEY SOULD KISTEN THE TIP FROM THE START.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Hope this radio ham got a new identity ?

[@indraneilbiswas]

wheres Martine Love :D

[@user-ff2ms2pw2r]

La pelicula 3s buena

[@LynxStarAuto]

A CEO, a used car salesman, and a photographer walk into a bar...

[@jordiegundersen1465]

Classic example of elitist egotistical attitude towards the logic of a nobody ..!

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

Armed blaggers , safe blowers , the geli man , ( most respected ) pavement jobs , long firms , fences hoisters .all gone . RIP .

[@jamiecapes2644]

It's tragic, fucken shame.

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

@@jamiecapes2644 YEP !

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

@@jamiecapes2644 Yep .

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

@CatusBrutus EG:. Robbing someone on the strret after coming out or going to the bank with a lot of money .

[@fellspoint9364]

I was a member of the young burglars guild when I was coming up in Baltimore. Still admire a good caper.

[@beckybnyc322]

epic

[@ddavis8988]

Inspiration of Inside Man?

[@K69g-m7n]

Movie "safe"..jason statham

[@crimedramadvdhotspot7720]

Movie "The Bank job" Jason Statham

[@user-sw2lv3zp6o]

It was obvious the shop lease would be what led the police to them.

[@shajanjacob1576]

They should have been cunning enough to lease using an unidentifiable person through make-up.

[@secondcityr7331]

The bank job

[@mikewilson2122]

I clicked thinking This was about Lloyd banks.

[@jamese.6051]

Go cubs go

[@rolfdejonge3915]

✌️🤠💥🌟🌀🎉

[@muirhouseterrace]

Talk about 'English' teeth!

[@Seando42069]

G-g-g unit

[@Curious-Irish-Angel]

I don't like the documentaries. Please add that it is a docu in the tilte...

[@TheKnitch]

🙄 The title is already a huge clue. What exactly do you think this channel is about?

[@JorgePetraglia2009]

@@TheKnitch That guy should get Netflix where "real movies" are offered to the ones who find documentaries a little boring.

[@Bijoubix]

@@JorgePetraglia2009 I second that, absolutely!

[@hitlercat9357]

I would have thought "good luck to them" and gone back to bed

[@abombfletcher]

8:39 ford transit

[@tronghungdao251]

THEY SOULD KISTEN THE TIP FROM THE START.