Three Tonnes of Gold
The full story of the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery, told in pictures. This page needs JavaScript to play; the notes below work without it.
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Three Tonnes of Gold tells the true story of the Brink's-Mat robbery as a comic you play through. Early on 26 November 1983, six armed men walked into a security warehouse on the edge of Heathrow airport, helped by a guard on the inside. They had come for the safes. Instead they found about three tonnes of gold bars on the floor, worth £26 million at the time: Britain's biggest ever gold robbery. What followed lasted decades: the inside man's confession, the trials, the melting and selling of the gold, the death of an undercover detective, and a hunt for the money that never fully ended.
A round takes about ten minutes. You answer three quick questions, get a short read of your answers, and take a side on a hot take after seeing the best case for both sides. Then you choose how to follow the story: the Case File, where you guess each chapter's turning point before it is shown, or the Story in Pictures, where you read the same seven chapters straight through. Afterwards you can question the Case Desk, rank the moments that mattered most, read a short what-if scene and keep a case card as an image. You can leave at any step.
Three parts are written live by AI and labelled as AI: your reader read, the Case Desk's answers and the what-if scene. The AI is given the checked facts of the case and told not to invent facts, quotes, dates or numbers, to keep what courts decided apart from what was only alleged, and never to put words in real people's mouths. The what-if scenes are clearly marked fiction and name no real people. The AI can still make mistakes, so check the sources below. If the AI service is busy or offline, the page shows a hand-written text instead and says so.
The chapters were checked against these pages, which we opened when writing them: Brink's-Mat robbery and Kenneth Noye (Wikipedia), The Brink's-Mat Robbery (World History Encyclopedia) and What Was the Brink's-Mat Robbery? (History Hit), all read on 13 October 2026. Where these sources disagree, for example on what the gang expected to find or what the gold would be worth today, we leave the number out. People are named only for what courts decided or what is widely reported, and acquittals are stated as acquittals. All drawings are original; no real person is drawn. Nothing you answer is stored: closing the tab clears it. Only your answers in this round are sent to the AI when you use an AI part, and shared vote counts are not collected, so you see only your own vote.
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Three Tonnes of Gold is part of Stories With Pictures, an Ink Horses site. Unofficial and independent; not connected with Brink's or any company or drama named in the story.
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