Gotcha!: The Untold Story of Britain's Biggest Cash Robbery

Ronnie Knight; John Knight; Richard Wilton; Pete Sawyer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330486020 ISBN 13: 9780330486026

Publisher: Pan Books, 2003

An exciting crime caper as police and criminals team up for the first time to tell the inside story of the notorious Security Express Robbery. On Easter Monday 1983 armed robbers got into the supposedly impregnable Security Express depot in Shoreditch, neatly capturing the guards and holding them hostage. They hauled away 5 tons of cash, worth [pound]6 million then ([pound]26 million in today's currency). The gang made no mistakes and left behind not a single clue. Det. Supt Peter Wilton was the man in charge of the investigation. He spent years relentlessly tracking the culprits, playing a ruthless cat and mouse game that eventually led him to some of London's most notorious villains - including the infamous Knight family. John Knight and his brother Ronnie were well-known faces, hard men who kept to the code of the East End gangster. They were riding high when John Knight and his hand-picked team executed the perfect robbery, and Ronnie helped launder the cash. They almost got away with it...As gripping as any thriller, Gotcha! combines the Knights' and Wilton's stories to graphically recreate the robbery, from the adrenalin-fuelled raid to the long police search, from the high life on the Costa del Sol to interrogation, betrayal and arrest.

Review:

In this rare and compelling collaboration between criminal and detective, Gotcha! is the story of one of the most audacious robberies in British history.

Book Description:

An exciting crime caper as police and criminals team up for the first time to tell the inside story of the notorious Security Express Robbery.