Your Money or Your Life?

S1, E5: The 70s and 80s saw a change in activity for criminal fraternities. Following the 'harsh' sentencing of the Krays, many turned to armed robbery to earn a living. Villains saw the banks and armoured cars that transported huge amounts of cash around the UK as relatively easy pickings. Bernie talks to Danny Woollard and Angelo 'Festus' Hayman, two men who carried out the Snow Hill Robbery in 1995. The robbery was the most lucrative heist since the Great Train Robbery 32 years earlier. The two held up a security vehicle at gunpoint, stealing £7 million in bearer bonds and £400,000 in diamonds. Both men were charged and sentenced to lengthy terms of imprisonment.