Category: Crime Time

On This Day in Gangland FEBRUARY 28TH 1939

Hatton Gardens mastermind Brian Reader was born in London Docklands. He celebrates his 84th birthday today. Brian Reader has been one of the country’s most prolific jewel thieves, involved in raids and heists totalling more than £200 million – including pulling off the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary in 2015. At the age of 32, Read more…

APPEAL FOR INFORMATION AND WITNESSES – THE 1990 MURDER OF NICK WHITING.

The importance of this Murder in relation to the Rettendon case cannot be over stated. Both Essex and Kent police have ignored new leads and evidence that would potentially solve this case and The Rettendon Murders. The TM Eye Murder and Serious Crime Review Team are investigating the Murder of the British saloon car champion Read more…

NEVER deal with the FAKE bailiffs for Council TAX, they are simply NOT ‘bailiffs’, just ‘DEBT COLLECTORS’

If they take anything it is THEFT. If they break in it is called BURGLARY. Report them for these criminal offences if they attempt to take anything. They simply do not have a Warrant or Court Order. The only way they can take anything is if you agree to give it to them. They are Debt Read more…

On this day 31 January 2008, Derek Creighton “Bertie” Smalls died of natural causes aged 72.

Bertie Smalls was one of Britain’s most prolific armed robbers who, through an act of self-preservation, succeeded in changing the way in which the British police dealt with serious crime. After many years as a professional criminal, he helped create a legal precedent by giving up the cream of London’s armed robbers in exchange for Read more…

The Millennium Dome raid

Lee Wenham Raymond Betson William Cockram Terry Millman Aldo Ciarrocchi Robert Adams Kevin Meredith The Millennium Dome raid was an attempted robbery of the Millennium Dome‘s diamond exhibition in Greenwich, South East London occurring on 7 November 2000. A local gang planned to ram-raid the De Beers diamond exhibition which was being held in the riverside Dome at the time. The gang had then planned to escape Read more…

On this day 20 January 1998, Two men, Jack Whomes and Michael Steele, were convicted of the so called essex boys murders

On this day 20 January 1998, Two men, Jack Whomes and Michael Steele, were convicted of the triple murders of Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe after an Old Bailey trial, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The key witness was police informer Darren Nicholls, who gave evidence against his former friends at their trial. Read more…

Brink’s-Mat robbery ringleader ‘Mad’ Mickey McAvoy ‘died of broken heart’ after death of wife Kathy

BRINK’S-Mat robbery ringleader “Mad” Micky McAvoy must have squirrelled some cash away from the notorious gold bullion robbery, despite being “shafted” by other criminals while in prison, a former top detective who worked on the case believes. McAvoy, 71, (above) died of a “broken heart” at his Bromley home during the New Year celebrations six Read more…