Heist: Robbing the Bank of England

With unprecedented access, this two-part series tells the definitive international story of the 1990 City Bonds heist. In broad daylight, £292 million in bearer bonds were stolen from a briefcase in London. Despite being the largest street robbery in history, the crime has remained largely forgotten, until now.

Within minutes of the robbery the bonds disappeared, posing a terrifying risk of being laundered through the black market, fuelling global organised crime, drug trafficking and terrorism. The bonds began to be recovered through a series of exhilarating rescue missions by global law enforcement agencies. But the masterminds of the crime remained a mystery.  

Thirty-five years later, Marcel Theroux is determined to get the inside story of the biggest heist you’ve never heard of. Through his investigation he’ll meet a rogue’s gallery of gangland figures, undercover FBI agents and double-dealing snitches each with incredible stories to tell and their own version of the truth. Marcel must unpick fact from fiction and decipher what really happened on May 2nd, 1990. 

At the heart of the series is the infamous Keith Cheeseman, the only man convicted of the robbery. What secrets has this charismatic criminal been hiding and what’s he willing to divulge on camera?