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The Hatton Garden gang stole £14m in jewels… but was the REAL prize a piece of mystery evidence? Mastermind Brian Reader was a close associate of London’s last real Mr Big mobster linked to 25 murders who had his eyes on a single deposit box

In September, career criminal Brian ‘The Govnor’ Reader died of colon and prostate cancer. The old-school gangster led the ‘Diamond Wheezers’ mob into Hatton Garden in 2015, stealing £14m of gold bullion and jewels from a safety deposit company. Authorities only recovered
April 28, 2024

The retired cop who solved Emma’s murder in his spare room: Gerry Gallacher pored over the evidence in the case of a woman found dead in the woods. But when he finally cracked the case, the police who’d failed to catch the killer investigated HIM

Every police incident room has one: a crime wall where clues are displayed. Lists of names, photos, maps, lurid Post-it notes, random scribbles, all go up in the hope that one day a vital connection will be made and the mystery solved.
March 18, 2024