It was, so the introduction to The Gold suggests, “the largest robbery in world history and changed British crime and policing for ever”. We are also told that the six-part BBC series was “inspired by real events” but “some characters and elements have been created and changed for dramatic purposes”.
So how much of the re-enactment of the Brink’s-Mat £26m robbery of gold bullion in 1983 is true – one former detective described it as a “travesty” – and why do some major crimes make it on to the screen and others not?
