Sexy Beasts

The Hatton Garden Heist captured the publics 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 pounds worth of valuables grabbed from secretive safety deposit boxes in a vault beneath one of the most famous gold and jewellery districts in the world.

But where did it all go wrong for this band of old time villains? And why did the gangs bid to pull off the worlds biggest burglary turn into a deadly game of cat and mouse featuring the police and Londons most dangerous crime lords?

Nobody is better placed to reveal the full story of the Hatton Garden Raid than Britains best-connected true crime writer Wensley Clarkson. Through his unique contacts inside the London underworld, hes persuaded those who really know the truth to reveal the chilling details behind Britains biggest ever burglary.