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Diamond Geezers

Author : Kris Hollington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781839013799
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Diamond Geezers written by Kris Hollington and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 2000, the most audacious crime ever attempted in Britain took place: the broad daylight theft of a diamond collection worth £350 million from the infamous Millennium Dome by a gang armed only with smoke bombs, stink bombs, a JCB, a speedboat and, bizarrely, a Catherine wheel firework. The Diamond Geezers, a motley crew of petty criminals from south-east London, were desperate for cash and had nothing to lose; the gems were in a poorly guarded tent by the river - how hard could it be? For the first time since that extraordinary day, author Kris Hollington lays bare the bones of the case, investigating the Diamond Geezers, the police, Dome workers and De Beers employees to get to the heart of the heist. Discover who was crazy enough to want to buy the hottest diamonds in the world, as well as the shocking secrets of the planet's most precious diamond collection. From the crime's conception and execution to the notorious trial and appeal, it's a gripping account of a remarkable true crime. Praise for Diamond Geezers: 'Sensational... Explosive...' - News of the World 'Kris Hollington has delved into the criminal underworld and spoken to sources from the police and De Beers to uncover a fascinating account of the event... a story of bungling ineptitude, audacity in the face of logic and disaster on a spectacular scale. A very British tragi-comedy... With echoes of the Ealing comedies and The Italian Job, it sounds like a box office hit' - This is London Kris Hollington is a bestselling author of over twenty books, several of which have been adapted for TV documentaries and dramas. On both sides, there was everything at stake. This is the unbelievable story of the Crime of the Millennium.

Diamond Geezers

Author : Kris Hollington
Publisher : Thistle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781910198971
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Diamond Geezers written by Kris Hollington and published by Thistle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sensational... Explosive..." News of the World "Kris Hollington has delved into the criminal underworld and spoken to sources from the police and De Beers to uncover a fascinating account of the event... a story of bungling ineptitude, audacity in the face of logic and disaster on a spectacular scale. A very British tragi-comedy... With echoes of the Ealing comedies and The Italian Job, it sounds like a box office hit." This is London In November 2000, the most audacious crime ever attempted in Britain took place: the broad daylight theft of a diamond collection worth 350 million from the infamous Millennium Dome by a gang armed only with smoke bombs, stink bombs, a JCB, a speedboat and, bizarrely, a Catherine wheel firework. The Diamond Geezers, a motley crew of petty criminals from south-east London, were desperate for cash and had nothing to lose; the gems were in a poorly guarded tent by the river - how hard could it be? For the first time since that extraordinary day, author Kris Hollington lays bare the bones of the case, investigating the Diamond Geezers, the police, Dome workers and De Beers employees to get to the heart of the heist. Discover who was crazy enough to want to buy the hottest diamonds in the world, as well as the shocking secrets of the planet's most precious diamond collection. From the crime's conception and execution to the notorious trial and appeal, it's a gripping account of a remarkable true crime. On both sides, there was everything at stake. This is the unbelievable story of the Crime of the Millennium."

Diamond Geezers

Author : Echo Freer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340875728
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Diamond Geezers written by Echo Freer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modesty de Mise is dead set on saving the local cemetery from developers. But when mobsters start to show an interest in the scheme, she knows she must act fast to prevent her plans going six feet under.

The Great Diamond Heist - The Incredible True Story of the Hatton Garden Diamond Geezers

Author : Gordon Bowers
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786060787
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Great Diamond Heist - The Incredible True Story of the Hatton Garden Diamond Geezers written by Gordon Bowers and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the Easter weekend in 2015, an audacious gang of criminals robbed a safe depository in London's Hatton Garden, the centre of the UK's diamond trade. Shortly before, electrical cables under nearby Kingsway had caught on fire, disrupting the emergency services in the area. Coincidence? Alarms at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd went off, but the police ignored them. The burglars were caught on CCTV taking jewellery worth up to $200 million. They had used specialist equipment, taking days to tunnel through the walls of the vault. Within a month nine suspects had been arrested and valuables seized from their homes. They were aged between forty-three and seventy-six, including a father and son. The question was, were they the same gang that had made a similar daring raid in Hatton Garden safe netting £1.5 million over the Christmas holiday in 2004. The culprits then were never caught. In 1986, a similar heist had taken place in Los Angeles where a gang drilled a 100- foot tunnel from a storm drain into the vaults of the First Interstate Bank in West Hollywood. It inspired the novel The Black Echo. Author Michael Connelly believes his book might have inspired the Hatton Garden heists, and has a grudging respect for the criminals. "There is no violence and they sweated for the money. And there is a certain class envy," he said. "We don’t feel too sorry for people who keep fortunes hidden away in safety deposit boxes. Part of us hopes the gang members are now lying on a beach somewhere." However, what the Hatton Garden heist so victimless? There have been suggestions that the safety deposit raid was linked to the murder of John 'Goldfinger' Palmer – a suspect in the 1983 Brink's-Mat bullion robbery who was gunned down in Essex in July. The question remains: was Palmer killed for tipping off police about possible suspects?

Diamond Geezers

Author : Kate Kray
Publisher : John Blake
ISBN 13 : 9781904034193
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Diamond Geezers written by Kate Kray and published by John Blake. This book was released on 2002 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Kray has access to the most dangerous men in Britain. Her bestselling books Hard Bastards and Hard Bastards 2, and the accompanying television series, have created a whole new subcurrent of literature portraying the gritty reality of violence in Britain in all its many forms. David Bailey has been following Kate's work from the very beginning. Now he has asked to accompany her around the country to photograph all the most terrifying men Kate knows. Diamond Geezers is the astonishing result. An intriguing mixture of shockingly frank interviews, gripping reportage, and Bailey's exclusive photography, it is lavishly produced, artistically significant and utterly compelling.

Freedom of Information Law and Good Governance

Author : Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030836584
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Freedom of Information Law and Good Governance written by Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Sierra Leone’s ten-year civil conflict demonstrates the criticality of freedom of information (FOI) as a facet of good governance where corruption thrives, spanning both public and private sectors, if Sierra Leone’s continued security and stability are to be ensured. It argues that it was the absence of an anti-corruption tool like FOI and its attendants, transparency, and accountability, in governance generally, and in the area of the extractive industry in particular, that lead to other social phenomena which directly sparked the war. It proffers that for the continued consolidation of peace, security, stability and development in Sierra Leone, transparency and accountability must be ensured by protecting and implementing the demand driven anti-graft FOI. Straddling the disciplines of law, political science, public policy, and history, the book’s major premise is that it was the absence of FOI in the area of governance and the extractive industry, which enabled politicians, civil servants and the politically connected to ransom and exploit Sierra Leone’s mineral resources for their own profit with impunity, a state of affairs which led to underdevelopment, state collapse and an embittered civil populace especially the youth. The book postulates that as such any attempt to ensure long-term peace in Sierra Leone, should seek to avoid replicating the conditions that gave rise to that gruesome conflict- elites expropriation of national resources through endemic graft. The book proposes the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Right to Information Act 2013.

Sexy Beasts

Author : Wensley Clarkson
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316545945
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Sexy Beasts written by Wensley Clarkson and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what has been described as a true-life blend of "Grumpy Old Men" and "Ocean's Eleven, SEXY BEASTS is an insider account of the 2015 Hatton Garden Heist, in which a group of retirement-age career criminals -- the so-called "Diamond Geezers" -- robbed a London jewelry vault, in what would be the biggest burglary in UK history. The Hatton Garden Heist captured the British public's imagination more than another other crime since The Great Train Robbery. It was supposed to make a fortune for a team of old time professional criminals. Their last hurrah. A final lucrative job that would send the old codgers off on happy retirements to the badlands of Spain and beyond. It seemed to be the stuff of legends. Tens of millions of dollars worth of valuables grabbed from safety deposit boxes in a vault beneath one of the most famous jewelry districts in the world. But where did it all go wrong for this band of old time villains? And how did the gang's bid to pull off the world's biggest burglary turn into a deadly game of cat and mouse featuring the police and London's most dangerous crime lords? Nobody is better placed to reveal the full story of the Hatton Garden Heist than Britain's best-connected true crime writer, Wensley Clarkson. Through his unparalleled contacts inside the criminal underworld, he's finally able to reveal the astonishing details behind Britain's biggest ever burglary.

Diamond Geezers

Author : Greg Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857027495
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book Diamond Geezers written by Greg Williams and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaffir Khan is on life support after Trevor the psycho put him in hospital over a small sum owed. Counci llor Goodge is trying to keep his head above water after a s eries of race hate crimes and local pressure from residents wanting a solution. '

Taking Command

Author : David Richards
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 1472220862
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Taking Command written by David Richards and published by Headline. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013 he retired after over forty years of service in the British Army and a career that had seen him rise from junior officer with 20 Commando to Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces. He served in the Far East, Germany, Northern Ireland and East Timor. He was the last Governor of Berlin's Spandau Prison, when Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy, was its sole prisoner. In 2005 he was appointed Commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in Afghanistan and as commander of NATO forces became the first British General to command US Forces in combat since the Second World War. In 2000, Richards won acclaim when he brought together a collation of forces in Sierra Leone to stop the ultra-violent Revolutionary United Front from attacking the capital, Freetown. In so doing he ended one of the bloodiest civil wars to bedevil the region. He did so without the official sanction of London, and failure could have cost him his career. As Chief of the Defence Staff he advised the government during the crises and interventions in Libya and Syria and oversaw the controversial Strategic Defence and Security Review. Taking Command is Richards' characteristically outspoken account of a career that took him into the highest echelons of military command and politics. Written with candour, and often humour, his story reflects the changing reality of life for the modern soldier over the last forty years and offers unprecedented insight into the readiness of our military to tackle the threats and challenges we face today.

The Quirky Guide to Birmingham

Author : R. J. Hutcheson
Publisher : Quirky Guides Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1527270831
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Quirky Guide to Birmingham written by R. J. Hutcheson and published by Quirky Guides Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Break from the shackles of traditional guidebooks and bid farewell to the crowds. Free your mind of dull comparisons with Venetian canals. You deserve better and this is the quite interesting stuff you didn’t know you wanted to know. From City Centre to open road, more than 100 unconventionalities await you and they’re all free to see. It’s the street museum of the marvellously mundane, the gratis gallery of graveyards and graffiti. Box fresh oddities are revealed. Age old myths flaunted on shiny plaques are exposed. Uncover astonishing life stories and tragic deaths of Brummies you may not have heard of but won’t be able to forget. If you prefer sofa centric exploration, every chapter is brought to life with exclusive photographs and illustrations.

Underworld London

Author : Catharine Arnold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0857201166
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Underworld London written by Catharine Arnold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quirky, fascinating portrait of the English capital's dark and criminal underbelly throughout history Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, this grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells takes in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and con-men, 18th century highway robbery, and the rise of prisons, the police, and the Victorian era of incarceration. It also examines the influence of London's criminal classes on the literature of the 19th and 20th century, through to the Krays and Soho gangs of the 1950s and 1960s. London's crimes have changed over the centuries, both in method and execution. This lively popular history traces these developments, from the highway robberies of the 18th century, made possible by the constant traffic of wealthy merchants in and out of the city, to the beatings, slashings, and poisonings of the Victorian era.

Case Computer John Lennon

Author : Justin Tully
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445737019
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book Case Computer John Lennon written by Justin Tully and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: glancing at some documents online he's interrupted by the police investigation team trying to recover the lost computer. Trevor Rutledge shows them his computer, but before they tell him not to he's clicked on a picture where a warm haze surrounds them all. The computer recognises the crime and throws them all back to December 1980 before the murder takes place. Can they stop the inevitable from happening or simply stand by and watch history run its course?

Rio Ferdinand - Five Star - The Biography

Author : Wensley Clarkson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784181250
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Rio Ferdinand - Five Star - The Biography written by Wensley Clarkson and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The fascinating story of one of football's most controversial stars' - Daily MailRio Ferdinand established himself as one of the world's top; defenders. He burst on to the pitch at the young age of seventeen, when he made his first-team debut for West Ham, playing alongside other budding talents Frank Lampard and Joe Cole. During his time with the Hammers, the young Ferdinand was honoured to be compared to 1966 World Cup hero Sir Booby Moore, and it wasn't long before he himself was picked to represent England.His performances on the world stage transformed Ferdinand from an emerging force to a fully accomplished international football star. As his reputation soared, so too did his value on the transfer market, and in the summer of 2002 Manchester United signed him for a world-record fee for a defensive player.The path to footballing glory hasn't always been smooth: when he was a young boy his schoolmate Stephen Lawrence was murdered, while in later years his reputation was dented by drink-driving shame and an outrageous holiday in Cyprus. And in 2004 his career faced the ultimate test - having missed a routine drugs test, Ferdinand was banned from professional football for eight months.Yet he came back stronger than ever, becoming a defensive lynchpin at both club and international level. A crucial member of the team, Rio as a player was both controlled and calm in even the most heated of games, while his pace, organisational skills and reading of the game made him one of the strongest team players.This searching biography, described by the Sunday Times on its publication as 'the most exciting sports biography of the year', has been fully revised and updated to take account of Ferdinand's life and career since he retired from professional football. It paints a portrait, not always uncritical, of an extraordinary footballer, but also an extraordinary man who shook up the world of sport and, in his work for charity and as an informed commentator, continues to do so. In doing so, it covers the highs and lows of an illustrious career, revealing all about Ferdinand's extraordinary talent, dedication and ambition.

You Did Say Have Another Sausage

Author : John Meadows
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1785383868
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book You Did Say Have Another Sausage written by John Meadows and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light-hearted, anecdotal true stories as the author shares his wide-ranging experiences as a mischievous art student, bemused psychiatric nurse, reluctant parachutist, harassed teacher, American counsellor and time-traveller. Follow his hilarious escapades with a human skeleton, nude model and a lion, and witness incidents of mistaken identity that create comic situations in a psychiatric ward. Touring America by Greyhound Bus he encounters interesting characters and uncovers some intriguing stories. Occasionally, he takes a detour and travels by time-machine to visit his future self as a teacher supervising school art tours. Each chapter has a different scenario and whimsical, observational humour is the common thread.

Naughty Bastards - Twenty One True Stories

Author : Kate Kray
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1844549151
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Naughty Bastards - Twenty One True Stories written by Kate Kray and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a deadly code of conduct that operates beyond the boundaries of the everyday. It's a world where anger, strength, and terrifying ferocity must be controlled with total precision and perfect timing. It is an art known to only a few. In this unique project, Kate Kray has met such men and talked to them on their own ground. They have opened up to her, told her their stories--the hunger and poverty they have endured as kids with crime and violence on every street corner, a world where it's a thin line between survival and the cold slab in the city mortuary. With integrated photographs, the portraits of these men reveal not only their awesome and terrifying presence, their power and brutal strength, but their underlying humanity and dignity too. The result of this collaboration is a revelation--portraits in words and pictures of tough guys who are smooth, loaded, and hard as rock. Men who have gone to the brink, and have survived to turn their lives around to tell their tale.

The Rough Guide to True Crime

Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
ISBN 13 : 1405381396
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to True Crime written by Rough Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to True Crime tells the stories of criminal acts ranging from the absurd to the appalling, using a light touch with the former and illuminating the psychology in play behind the crimes. A compilation of crime's greatest hits, preposterous occurrences and heinous acts, the Rough Guide to True Crime will satisfy the armchair voyeur and amateur criminologist alike.

Metal

Author : Garry Sharpe-Young
Publisher : Jawbone Press
ISBN 13 : 1906002010
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Metal written by Garry Sharpe-Young and published by Jawbone Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive, illustrated book about one of the most enduringly popular forms of music. Combining biography, critical analysis, and detailed reference sections, it profiles all the major heavy metal artists as well as a huge selection of other niche acts from around the world. Metal: The Definitive Guide includes new firsthand interviews with many major metal musicians and detailed discographies. It is the definitive metal encyclopedia.The over 300 illustrations in this book encompass fantastic including artist pictures and memorabilia such as posters, ticket stubs, and much more.