This is the true story of the Brink's-Mat robbery, told the way you would watch stories on your phone. Early on 26 November 1983, six armed men walked into a security warehouse on the edge of Heathrow airport, let in 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. The chapters follow what came next: the 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.
Tap the right side of the screen for the next slide and the left side to go back. Hold to pause, and swipe sideways to jump between chapters, or pick a chapter from the circles on the cover. Some slides ask you something: a poll, a guess about what happened next, or how a moment feels. The round takes about seven minutes and ends with a recap card you can save as an image. Clips play only when you press play, and the trailer at the end loads from YouTube only when you press it.
Three parts are written live by AI and labelled as AI: the short read of your answers, the Case Desk's replies and the what-if scene. The AI is given the checked facts and told not to invent facts, quotes, dates or numbers, to keep court decisions apart from allegations, and never to put words in real people's mouths. It can still make mistakes. If the AI is busy or offline, a hand-written text appears instead and says so.
The chapters were checked against pages we opened on 13 October 2026: 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). People are named only for what courts decided or what is widely reported. No photograph of the robbery itself is used: the photos show the real places and objects of the story, or things like them, and each slide says what it shows. They come from Wikimedia Commons under open licences, credited on the slide and listed here; two drawings are our own.
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