The Time A Gang of OAPs Stole £14,000,000 | Fascinating History

I cover the story of the Hatton Garden Heist - an audacious robbery notable for the fact that it was carried out by old age pensioners... Fascinating History posts weekly videos about infamous flops, failures and mistakes from throughout history... and whatever other weird stories from the past catch my eye. Thanks for watching! LINKS: 🔗 ► My other channel:    / @fascinatinghorror   ► Support this channel:   / fascinatinghorror   |    / @fascinatinghistoric   ► Follow me:   / funhistorytales   |   / funhistorytales   |   / funhistorictales   ► Get in touch: [email protected] CHAPTERS: 🔖 ► 00:00 - Intro ► 01:10 - The Plan ► 07:20 - The Job ► 13:53 - The Total Failure to Get Away With It MUSIC: 🎵 ► "A Stranger Thing" by Bruno E ► Duck Quack Sound by Qubodup via Freesound ILLUSTRATIONS: 🎨 ► Comics by Emma Galloway (https://artofemmag.carrd.co/) SOURCES: 📑 ► "How the real Hatton Garden robbery played out" published by The Week, May 2019. Link: https://theweek.com/63246/how-the-rea... ► "Hatton Garden ringleader 'Basil' found guilty over £14m heist" published by The Guardian, March 2019. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2... ► "Hatton Garden theft: Full timeline of one of the biggest jewel raids in history" by Siobhan Fenton, published by The Independent, January 2016. Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk... ► "Hatton Garden heist: The target, the plan, the job, the gear and the investigation behind the biggest burglary in English legal history" by Paul Peachey, published by The Independent, January 2016. Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk... ► "Hatton Garden raid 'was doomed to fail'" by Daniel Sandford, published by BBC News, January 2016. Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england... ► "One last job: the inside story of the Hatton Garden heist" by Duncan Campbell, published by The Guardian, January 2016. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2... ► "Brian Reader, last denizen of a bygone world of ‘gentleman thieves’, dies aged 84" by Isaac Zamet, published by The Tatler, April 2024. Link: https://www.tatler.com/article/brian-... ► "The north London pub where Hatton Garden raid was planned" by Jamie Grierson, published by The Guardian, January 2016. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2... ► "Hatton Garden: Who were the jewellery heist raiders?" published by BBC News, March 2019. Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england... ► "This Is How The Hatton Garden Jewel Thieves Were Caught" by Patrick Smith, published by Buzzfeed, January 2016 Link: https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith... ► "Hatton Garden heist: how an old-school working-class criminal's swan song came together" by Vikram Dodd, published by The Guardian, January 2016. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2... #history #failure #disaster #crime #mistakes #heist