Northern Bank Robbery | Britain's Biggest Heists

Northern Bank Robbery | Britain's Biggest Heists | S2E04

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In 2004 a gang in Northern Ireland managed to execute one of the most audacious robberies in the world. A violent group kidnapped staff of the Northern Bank in Belfast and held their families hostage. In an elaborate plot, they ordered the staff to steal over £26 million, walking straight out of the bank with the money. In an unprecedented move, the Irish Government issued new notes in the country, to try and flush out the stolen money, but to little avail. In a robbery so calculated that not one of the thieves stepped into the bank to take the loot, none of the stolen cash has since been recovered and the thieves still remain at large.
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@islamicentertainmentchanne1128 Жыл бұрын

In other words, THE PERFECT HEIST

@jccjjccj3305 Жыл бұрын

Jesus Akbar

@kieransavage100 5 күн бұрын

Was it the RA?????

@kieransavage100 5 күн бұрын

The RA pension fund?????

@MrJonesy2121 Жыл бұрын

I would give them bank robbers any information they wanted who gives a shit about someone else's money

@PatrickWard-ux9cn 25 күн бұрын

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@NewTheoryMagazine Жыл бұрын

Great documentary 💯🍿

@sparky7915 6 ай бұрын

Great video! The robbers certainly did their homework very well. They had to have been studying the bank for a long time. Since no one expected the bank to be robbed I think it was relatively easy for the robbers to figure many things ot. I wonder if the robbers had time to launder the money they stole. It was some time after the robbery that the bank decided to print new bank notes. That in itself would have taken some time to do. So by that time maybe the money had been put into offshore accounts.

@aspenrebel 4 ай бұрын

I think the narrator said that 17 million was in new notes and they had the serial numbers. That none of those serial numbers ever showed up anywhere in the world. That 9 million was in old bills, so the robbers could have used the 9 million.

@NevHattle 20 күн бұрын

Actually one of the best heist ever, I don't agree with taking people hostage but robbing it without stepping foot in reduce your risk of being caught substantially

@jackietreehorn5561 19 күн бұрын

Was called a tiger kidnapping then

@lawrencebeaulieu9242 2 жыл бұрын

Id say Lee Murray took a few tricks from this robbery.

@brandonsoal-bo5fl 7 ай бұрын

Lee Murray is a legend

@somerandomboomer7234 Жыл бұрын

The fact that Kevin could take the money out from the bank so easily is concerning

@tiresasaisaacs6767 2 жыл бұрын

A very interesting documentary

@lulufavs4519 2 жыл бұрын

Love watching these heists docs. Thanks for the upload! Keep them coming! 👍🏽

@calftobeefwexfordpaul1482 10 ай бұрын

The interesting fact that 70k from this robbery ended up in gerry hutchs bank account that he could not explain

@KironManuelCards Жыл бұрын

Excellent process.

@paulodonnell4004 Ай бұрын

Lol good luck 2 the robbers lol

@obi-wankenobi8462 2 жыл бұрын

They had other employees on the inside for months before

@lanag492 2 жыл бұрын

Starting with the guards

@imnotavingthat6813 Жыл бұрын

Gerry and Martin knew all about this, they got a nice bonus out of it

@marklittler784 2 жыл бұрын

I don't bother answering the door at 10pm.

@michaelgallagher3640 2 жыл бұрын

I don't open if I don't know ya.

@kymngin1488 2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelgallagher3640 PERIOD.

@breakfast917 2 жыл бұрын

You must be so scared in your own home and I find that terrible. What happens if you come at 10.30? Do you stay outside till the morning? What happens if you order a takeaway at 10.05 pm ? If you shrink behind your own front door you will end up littler and littler 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@marklittler784 2 жыл бұрын

@@breakfast917 No its because I can't be bothered.

@breakfast917 2 жыл бұрын

@@marklittler784 one sentence and you had to edit it 🤣🤣🤣🙃🤣 I bet youve wasted your whole life not being bothered,including getting an education 😁😁😁

@anushkasekkingstad1300 11 ай бұрын

Belfast isn’t in Britain, therefore this wasn’t a “British robbery”.

@janetwebster5099 11 ай бұрын

You are correct. It was a robbery within the United Kingdom, not Britain.

@mongobubongo834 8 ай бұрын

it is within the uk and to many british is interchangable, especially in a tv format where they dont have to be as correct as in a book or paper. but well done on a very pedantic observation

@katarinamaersksekkingstad4480 8 ай бұрын

@@mongobubongo834 It’s clearly within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Many none too bright English see many things as “interchangeable”, which aren’t at all. Ever been to a Scotland v England rugby match where many of them arrive carrying Union Flags, somehow imagining it to be the English flag? Far from pedantic, it’s a very well defined and vitally important legal distinction, with real implications for the bigoted nonsense that is brexit.

@mongobubongo834 8 ай бұрын

this is why they make the documentaries and you write pedantic comments

@katarinamaersksekkingstad4480 8 ай бұрын

@@mongobubongo834 Documentaries are meant to be factual. Clearly, the distinction is wasted on you, as a result of your obvious challenges with English language literacy.

@wenticoent4934 Жыл бұрын

Perfect

@terrymedlicott3580 2 жыл бұрын

I was arrested and questioned about that, i had assets seized, and my business was destroyed for years later..

@jackietreehorn5561 2 жыл бұрын

Hope you put away a few pound mate

@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 2 жыл бұрын

Terry Medlicott, He's in the 'RA

@user-vx4ku3cb8l 11 ай бұрын

SO TO HEAR THAT SEND YOUR BILL TO ADAMS

@stevecampbell7589 9 ай бұрын

how much you get away with then

@tommac8556 Жыл бұрын

Then Celtic signed Keano Nakamura Dublin and Boruc. Just saying like....

@jimmilligan6026 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, they are good. Some are done with a lot of Strategy. Whether it was Ireland, Britain, Wales.

@themanformerlycalled 11 ай бұрын

Perfect heist

@plywoodcarjohnson5412 2 жыл бұрын

Nasty and never solved. Involving reprinting all the bills of an entire country. I guess the security company should be looked into more carefully, allowing the cctv to be broken for a month. Also alerting that. : "You're white rubbish van comes back for a 2:nd run." But so many powerful people were proly involved that it had to be solved this way. Just look at the guy who DID change the schedules. Very conveniant. He certainly did nothing to fix the broken cctv. For a month.

@shanetonkin2850 Жыл бұрын

Actually it wasn’t all the bills of an entire country. Northern Ireland is unusual in that it has no national banknotes, instead, 4 private banks each print their own unique set of banknotes which are all used interchangeably with one another, along with Bank of England notes from England. So in other words, for every denomination there are 5 completely different designs in circulation at the same time. It was only one of these ( the ‘Northern’ bank variety ) that was reprinted, as the vast majority of banknotes stolen in the raid were the ‘Northern’ designs ( and also because Northern bank has no power to tell the other 3 banks + the Bank of England to go and reprint all their money)

@xmanhoe Жыл бұрын

Over the years I've found some pre robbery Northern Bank notes 😎 , most people exchanged theirs, so they may be worth a few ££ to collectors in years to come

@CalloPasta 2 жыл бұрын

To think they changed their entire currency

@drewainge1059 2 жыл бұрын

Ok so apparently it's not really solved.

@michaelgallagher3640 2 жыл бұрын

That's what it says in the description....so yes. You must have been a detective on the case.

@tiresasaisaacs6767 2 жыл бұрын

Wow true true the got away that move must have been planned for months

@peterthompson747 2 жыл бұрын

Provo pension sanctioned by Blair.. Joke

@ifyouvote.5005 Жыл бұрын

The New RUC, the new name will never hide the old crime's.

@RebelsInc969 11 ай бұрын

This is one of the many reasons as to why weare going to a cashless society

@calftobeefwexfordpaul1482 10 ай бұрын

Cashless society is impossible to be honest, we can't have a one form of payments method that's in a digital format, if there was a financial hack all systems would be shut down and nobody could buy anything, it can't work, digital systems fail or go down software wise also it just cant work as its to risky, and financial hacks are more sophisticated these days it's just to risky and simply can't work, plus the volume of cash in circulation or lack of determines the current markets

@RebelsInc969 9 ай бұрын

@@calftobeefwexfordpaul1482 I'm afraid you dont understand

@jackietreehorn5561 3 ай бұрын

Let everyone know to ensure the loot gets in the swag bag

@pama2544 10 ай бұрын

At least it brought peace and order to the country governance. Thank God there was no loss of life. Not all bad looking situations turn out to be BAD after all!!!

@condorone1501 11 ай бұрын

Northern Ireland is part of the UK but it is not physically part of the Island of Britain.

@joseph317 Жыл бұрын

You mean that everyone had to change their old bank notes? WTF

@1970pizza 9 ай бұрын

Did the Northern bank not change the design of the bank notes so the robbers couldn't launder the money ?

@jackietreehorn5561 19 күн бұрын

The northern notes were called in a third of the loot but still got away with 15 million in other currency

@davemeads859 Жыл бұрын

And that's why you don't open your door to Celtic fans 🤔

@user-vx4ku3cb8l 11 ай бұрын

at the hight of the troubles he opens the door to strangers COME ON MAN WITH YOUR FAMILY THERE 2 german sheperds 2 rottwilers beside me may be a phone on the out aside camera also no way not that time of night come back to morrow morn i would have shouted

@seaghdhking9122 10 ай бұрын

@@user-vx4ku3cb8l2004 isn't the height of the troubles, isn't even the troubles. Gfa was signed in 98.

@davidlally592 9 ай бұрын

More sectarian comments...!!

@davemeads859 9 ай бұрын

@@davidlally592 it's honestly just meant as a lighthearted joke I've got family on both sides and tbh I find the whole thing absolutely ridiculous the amount of hate some people have towards each other is insane I love a friendly rivalry it can be good fun and a laugh but the whole Glasgow old firm rivalry is nasty AF

@terranceparsons5185 7 ай бұрын

I guess Chris Ward's solicitor will be played by Matt Damon.

@user-ck6nu8qd9i 8 ай бұрын

Thank you law enforcement

@katharinereynolds25 Жыл бұрын

I believe you would be shocked if you new who did it 😂🤣🙄

@jackietreehorn5561 11 ай бұрын

Mother Teresa

@christopherlawledge9093 10 ай бұрын

Bobby Sands

@mickeyharkinstyle 2 ай бұрын

Security had a big involvement not rocket science

@sparky7915 6 ай бұрын

So although the police intensely searched for clues for months on end and nothing turned up tells me the robbery was extraordinarily professional. In most of the videos I have seen sooner or later a clue or clues show up. For example, somebody gets in trouble with the law and then starts talking about the robbery to get a reduced sentence. Another example is when someone starts spending a lot of money - they buy a new car or a new house. It may be that a snitch overhears something. But in this case no clues showed up. Hence it was a very professional robbery - the best I have ever seen.

@matthewjamison 5 ай бұрын

The IRA have been playing cat & mouse with M15/Special Branch for decades. They aren't fly by night robbers. They seen it as a military operation & conducted it as such.

@aspenrebel 4 ай бұрын

I think it was done for political purposes not for the money. The robbers may have been SAS not IRA.

@matthewjamison 4 ай бұрын

@aspenrebel It was money to fund any future operations & political campaigning (Sein Fein)

@jackietreehorn5561 3 ай бұрын

@@matthewjamisonretirement fund mostly lol allegedly

@matthewjamison 3 ай бұрын

@@jackietreehorn5561 No doubt 🤣

@Davidnumber23 Жыл бұрын

be great to find out who did it one day...and what they spent it on. It was the workers in a double bluff lol

@trolmct6972 Жыл бұрын

The money went into the republican movement

@Davidnumber23 Жыл бұрын

@@trolmct6972 they whoever they are didnt even get half of the dough

@Davidnumber23 Жыл бұрын

@@jackietreehorn5561 so they got convicted did they then ?

@jackietreehorn5561 Жыл бұрын

@@Davidnumber23 no... no one did

@Davidnumber23 Жыл бұрын

@@jackietreehorn5561 NO what? EXPRESS YOURSELF MAN lol

@1nikg 2 жыл бұрын

If paramilitaries were involved then it would've been the IRA, only they could be this sophisticated....can't imagine the likes of mad dog or stone or the likes to be this organised

@rutter1ify 2 жыл бұрын

Mad dog lol

@1nikg 2 жыл бұрын

@@rutter1ify wee adair

@jackietreehorn5561 2 жыл бұрын

It was the Jehovah witnesses...

@ytcensorhack1876 Жыл бұрын

The irish police arrested several SF members down in cork 4 laundering t northern bank cash, one was caught while burning banknotes from t robbery, so almost certainly ira/sf

@jackietreehorn5561 Жыл бұрын

@@ytcensorhack1876 like father ted said the money was just resting in my account

@suahcocothegreat5183 Жыл бұрын

Thank God they didn't kill anyone 🙏

@breezyc78 Жыл бұрын

Proving it,s just Paper 😏

@rainrain9378 2 жыл бұрын

Why keep repeating when we all know whats been happening

@zer0875 2 жыл бұрын

You need evidence before you lay blame?

@fullyawakeloyah8844 Жыл бұрын

Must of been an inside man/men my thought is one of the 2 who were kidnapped and a security guard

@jackietreehorn5561 Жыл бұрын

Was the case at the time with bank employee but nothing was ever proven

@sifunisoliwakala3837 Жыл бұрын

Poorly investigated

@andrewagyeman3338 10 ай бұрын

All the so-called hostages were in on the plan or at least on of them. The two bankers cannot claim to be too terrified to alert the authorities because they had almost 24 hours to calm down and take that rational decision. At least the authorities would have been able to track the robbers to where they were taking the money to without interfering with the heist to save their families. Unbelievable!

@matthewjamison 5 ай бұрын

Doesn't matter if you have a week in the Maldives to calm down. They *KNOW* not to fu

@aspenrebel 4 ай бұрын

What are you saying?

@jackietreehorn5561 19 күн бұрын

So called hostage? Why would you think that?

@jakehaymes4438 9 ай бұрын

Why do they keep recapping what we already know? To extend to programme or do they think we are thick?

@jelaifriendsfloreinchannel7888 11 ай бұрын

Why would you open your door in the middle of the night without knowing first who they are? or why would you entertain strangers midnight?stupidity. How smart and wise are UK investigators in cases like that?

@jplacido9999 10 ай бұрын

You are right, sir...👍

@brucemilne9576 Жыл бұрын

How can it be Britain's biggest heist, if it happened in Ireland?

@malcolm4200 Жыл бұрын

Because northern Island is part of the British Isles.

@GodlessScummer Жыл бұрын

Because Northern Ireland is part of Britain.

@chrisoconnor9521 Жыл бұрын

Yet another clueless A*******. Look at a map and locate Belfast, idiot.

@janetwebster5099 Жыл бұрын

You are right - It should say UK's biggest heist

@jamestoal1901 Жыл бұрын

@@GodlessScummer no it isn't. Britain is an island containing England, Scotland and Wales. Ireland is a neighbouring island

@davidjma7226 2 жыл бұрын

The more vehemently something is denied the more you know it was them. TD or Total Denial is a strategy that really works - where evidence apart from rumour or purely circumstantial evidence is all the authorities have.

@ytcensorhack1876 Жыл бұрын

They caught a SF member down in cork burning banknotes from t robbery, so almost certainly ira/sf

@thorcat7769 Жыл бұрын

Not true. People who are falsely accused can get very aggressive and belligerent and will defend their innocence vociferously. Police will often not even administer lie detector tests when people demand them to prove their innocence. The police know they are dealing with an innocent person.

@AJ-2k24 11 ай бұрын

Britain's biggest heist...... In Ireland 😂🤣... 🤔... What an eejit 😄

@martinmcfred6758 7 ай бұрын

This should have been called Biggest British Heist as technically it isn`t Britain but it is in the British Isles.

@aspenrebel 4 ай бұрын

No, it's part of United Kingdom not British Isles.

@garethfloydevans861 2 жыл бұрын

What they got houses out there thought they all lived in caravans

@scotishjohn Жыл бұрын

Hahahaha ffs hahaha

@user-vx4ku3cb8l 11 ай бұрын

for the life of me i cant remember this surely i would my birthday is christmas day yet nothing jogs my mind mum and me sat watching t v in ENGLAND AS USUAL CANT REMEBBER IT those poor people what they went through of cause war criminal blair came out smelling of roses as did addams and his monkey what a world we live in

@johnboy4067 Жыл бұрын

I always wanted to Rob a bank in the 80s very close to do it but my m8 let me down , ( thankfully ) they were crazy days, I love the Irish everyone makes out there backward but I think there great

@jackietreehorn5561 Жыл бұрын

It takes a wise man to act the fool 😂

@chamezriches5843 Жыл бұрын

I'm thinking about doing one now shit

@strokenumber3 Жыл бұрын

Ironically 'backward' people can't spell correctly, utilize poor syntax and have weak grammatical and punctuation skills.

@drgonzo6555 Жыл бұрын

@@chamezriches5843 days of robbing banks and getting away with it are gone. Better off robbing a rich drug dealer but make sure u do it right.

@jackietreehorn5561 Жыл бұрын

@@drgonzo6555 I'm thinking of robbing KFC..... not know what I'm doing, just wing it

@Charles-uu7gp 2 жыл бұрын

The peace and respect is very good, but what happened to the money

@dylancooke9578 9 ай бұрын

They spent it all on scratchcards

@jackietreehorn5561 3 ай бұрын

@@dylancooke9578 and mankinis

@richardmcgrath9729 Жыл бұрын

Who in their right mind would give the key of a bank vault to anyone involved in Celtic FC??!!

@johnanthonyfingleton2954 11 ай бұрын

Well you Rangers guys wouldn't have the brains.

@stevecampbell7589 9 ай бұрын

an irish person. they are not famed for intelligence

@derry1423 7 ай бұрын

Your ma

@jackietreehorn5561 3 ай бұрын

Rod Stewart

@jjpower6769 Жыл бұрын

The title is misleading. Belfast is not in Britain Britain is England, Scotland and Wales. The UK is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. So maybe, UK's biggest.....

@williamgibson2639 11 ай бұрын

Everyone in Nt Ireland gets a British Pension and uses British money also the money that was stolen was British Pounds.

@user-uj4il3lv1n 11 ай бұрын

Was let happen pay off

@Thang292 2 жыл бұрын

In reality both person were involve😆 How cannt they phone law enforcement while they can?

@JohnBeerschoten-qf8bz 2 жыл бұрын

Because they would risk the lives of their family. The family was threatened to be killed. I believe the threat was serious. Would you take the risk that it was not serious?

@fosterasare7433 2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnBeerschoten-qf8bz they wouldn’t if the whole house was surrounded and police presence announced. don’t forget murderers love to live, more than anything else

@kcsahoufactory4987 2 жыл бұрын

Wowshet man 👨 WoWchikiWoW 🎊 😊 👍 🤩 🤗 🤗 🤗

@freakyroot1 2 жыл бұрын

the north of ireland is not in britain

@wayneholloway9291 2 жыл бұрын

We don’t want the north of Ireland

@WeAreThePeople1690 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah your right, donegal is in the south

@freakyroot1 2 жыл бұрын

@@WeAreThePeople1690 donegal place/street whatever are in belfast.but ni as wee speak isnt in britain it is in the united kingdom.

@JohnBeerschoten-qf8bz 2 жыл бұрын

The Falkland Iles are not British, Gibraltar is not British, Northern Ireland is not British. Great Britain does not exist anymore. Thank God, because it is an imperialistic criminal organisation based on violence. Just Old Politics for which England finally has to pay after even the Unirted Kingdom does not exist anymore.

@jackietreehorn5561 2 жыл бұрын

@@freakyroot1 if u are a loyalist, look into your heritage, I'd say you are more Irish than u think

@alexcummins1710 11 ай бұрын

In side job.

@thandojafta6182 Жыл бұрын

@peterstephenwhyte6786 28 күн бұрын

Leave lrish for lrish were no brits

@lukebreezy9099 2 жыл бұрын

Ira is badass

@davemeads859 2 жыл бұрын

Murdering innocent women and children ain't badass

@scott74lamb Жыл бұрын

Shit scared of the sas

@federalagenciesarecourtesans 2 жыл бұрын

What would I do with $26 million pounds? Let's see, first, you have to make a deal with the Good Lord. "God if you let me have millions upon millions I'll stop being a little Jerk Off, Amen." That should do it.

@jackietreehorn5561 2 жыл бұрын

A lot of the loot was allegedly gave to ex political combatants as a retirement fund

@MPUNIVERSE Жыл бұрын

Clearly both dudes involved themselves. Otherwise its children tale

@thestevezx7 10 күн бұрын

So boring I fell asleep halfway through😴

@waldonikfaldo5285 11 ай бұрын

only one faction ripped Northern Ireland apart FACT

@andyb.1026 2 жыл бұрын

These people keep Rabbiting on about 'Political' ~ when its Nothing whatsoever to do with that ~ Its solely 100% Religious ~ Divide and Rule.. Keep them fighting each other and they don't have time to fight the common enemy

@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 2 жыл бұрын

You don't know a thing about Ireland if you think it was 100% religious.

@andyb.1026 2 жыл бұрын

@@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 I lived there a few years, so actually do know

@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 2 жыл бұрын

@@andyb.1026 You must have been living on the Shankill or something because the founder of Irish Republicanism was a Protestant, there were Protestants in the IRA and the most famous figure from the troubles, Bobby Sands, came from mixed household.

@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 2 жыл бұрын

@@jackietreehorn5561 you treat objects like women maaan

@renejean2523 Жыл бұрын

@@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883 - At school we used to joke that Bobby Sands was from Nuneaton. lol