Security Express Heist | Britain's Biggest Heists | S1E04

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2021
  • Over quarter of a century later, this documentary remembers the Security Express Heist told through the eyes of one of the most ruthless gangsters in British history, Freddie Foreman. Targeting the Shoreditch headquarters of Security Express, Foreman and his ‘Firm’ knew to expect safes brimming with readies lying in wait for transportation the following day. Disguised with monkey masks, balaclavas and brandishing shotguns, The Firm performed an excruciating 8 and a half hour hold up, interrogating the on duty guards one by one as they filtered in throughout the day. With each guard holding his own part of the vault activation, the Firm had to wait until they had a full set of workers to reap their £6million worth of spoils! But with a reward of half a million pounds hanging over their heads from Scotland Yard, will they get away with it?
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  • @JOHNSMITH-ve3rq
    @JOHNSMITH-ve3rq 2 роки тому +9

    Horsely, what a snitch. Crazy that senior criminals would trust people like that.

    • @mumblesbadly7708
      @mumblesbadly7708 2 роки тому +1

      Never trust somone who is on the ropes financially. They’ll eff up and expose anyone who trusts them with dangerous secrets.

  • @jamesphillips4385
    @jamesphillips4385 Рік тому +3

    I like the way that Freddie Foreman carefully worded his part in the Robbery by saying he was involved in the handling stolen money but basically giving a inside knowledge of the Armed Robbery that only a person on the actual Robbery would know. The Police know full well he was on the actual Robbery and as do the the London underworld but he got a Not Guilty for Armed Robbery but was convicted of Handling nearly half a million in Stolen money and sentenced to 9 years in 1990..

  • @rosamcrook7491
    @rosamcrook7491 2 роки тому +4

    Best document channel, no strange cutting zooms and sound editing going on! One of the only apprently

    • @paulthrutner9114
      @paulthrutner9114 2 роки тому +1

      The strange cutting, sounds and zooms are usually down to copyright laws

  • @user-hy2py2hu9f
    @user-hy2py2hu9f 4 місяці тому +2

    Freddie Foreman. The original godfather of British gentlemen, proper old school geezer they don’t make them like that anymore unfortunately, well done Fred and all the best to you and the family mate. 👍🏻😉

  • @mumblesbadly7708
    @mumblesbadly7708 2 роки тому +14

    “[The guard] had a shot up his niagras…” 😂😂😂

  • @adeh503
    @adeh503 2 роки тому +3

    Excellent thanks for the upload

  • @renejean2523
    @renejean2523 10 місяців тому +5

    "Poor old Greg 'ad a shooter up 'is niagaras..." lol Gotta love Freddie.

    • @bombibom1930
      @bombibom1930 3 місяці тому +1

      Brown Bread Fred mate😅

  • @Leeroy6572
    @Leeroy6572 2 роки тому +33

    Foreman was the man in his day, not the krays, Freddie had a bit more about him👍

    • @mumblesbadly7708
      @mumblesbadly7708 2 роки тому

      I believe the Kray’s heyday was at least decade or more earlier than the time of this crime.

    • @Leeroy6572
      @Leeroy6572 2 роки тому +1

      @@mumblesbadly7708 In his day

    • @SML1010THAI
      @SML1010THAI 2 роки тому +1

      Yeah he had is hands in many pie’s for sure very intelligent.

    • @Leeroy6572
      @Leeroy6572 2 роки тому

      @@SML1010THAI don't pay attention to yourself n make money was his attitude 👍😊

    • @i.marr.6688
      @i.marr.6688 2 роки тому +2

      Fred regretted getting involved with them and by 1968 just before he was lifted with the Kray's he was along with a few others planning to have both of the Twins Ironed out when he found out Ron wanted his pal Billy Gentry dead for nothing. He said Ron was fucking crazy and wanting to kill people many were friends of Fred for nothing. Fred was much bigger than the Twins ,All the Kray's could do was fight and protect they couldn't rob if they tried.

  • @neil2550
    @neil2550 2 роки тому +1

    Loving your vids,cheers

  • @imnotavingthat6813
    @imnotavingthat6813 2 роки тому +8

    Love listening to Freddie, he was there for it all, and involved in a lot of it. A True Legend. Just did what he thought was right, and you cant argue with that..

    • @showmevids1984
      @showmevids1984 5 місяців тому +1

      No offence mate but you’ve got pretty low self esteem if you revere an armed robber, none of them are legends honestly that’s a pretty embarrassing take

  • @maxcullen3427
    @maxcullen3427 2 роки тому

    Amazing video thanks a lot

  • @gutz323
    @gutz323 2 роки тому +9

    They never get away with the big ones. The great train robbery, security express, hatton garden, the brinks matt, the kent securitas job etc... A gang can steal too much, there is too much at stake, and not only have you got old bill after you, you'll have private security firms on your case working for the insurance companies. The only one that I know that got away with it, was the big one in Northern Ireland, but I think they only got away with it because the politicians let them, because the money was used to pay off IRA pensions.

    • @Wally-H
      @Wally-H Рік тому

      Depends how you define getting away with it. In most of those robberies, huge chunks of the money, gold bars etc. taken was never found. The criminals get released a few years later and spend the rest to their lives in luxury.

    • @jasonantigua6825
      @jasonantigua6825 3 місяці тому

      @@Wally-HThat never happens

    • @Wally-H
      @Wally-H 3 місяці тому

      @@jasonantigua6825 Of course it does, happens all the time. Perfect example, how do you think Kenneth Noye got his million pound house in Kent? Not through working in Tesco, I can tell you that! How do you think the criminals who spent years in their luxury Spanish seaside villas got their money?

    • @jasonantigua6825
      @jasonantigua6825 3 місяці тому

      @@Wally-H He spent the most important years of his life in jail! Haha

  • @billyhendry648
    @billyhendry648 2 роки тому +11

    Freddie was thee real deal proper gangster

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 роки тому +1

      Yeah Freddie pulled of the biggest cash hoist in English history lived like a king in America and Spain. The Krays lived with their mum and pimped young boys no comparison

  • @historymaven
    @historymaven 2 роки тому +2

    Love this narrator’s voice!

  • @Luton-Mick
    @Luton-Mick 2 роки тому +2

    The matter of fact FF: "Poor ole Greg had a shoota up his Niagras"...I'm dyin here!! 🤣😂🤣

  • @charlesweru7787
    @charlesweru7787 2 роки тому

    Respect sir forman, playing cool, respectable and calculated moves

  • @yasd676
    @yasd676 2 роки тому +6

    £6.5m stolen £3m recovered after spending over £3m on investigations

    • @mumblesbadly7708
      @mumblesbadly7708 2 роки тому +1

      The money the authorities spent on that particular successful investigation almosy certainly helped to deter other criminals from committing similar crimes.

  • @jupitorious7925
    @jupitorious7925 2 роки тому +5

    So much of that £ is still in Spain invested in clubs/restaurant's and bars... ha ha they had the last laugh

    • @0000dear
      @0000dear 2 роки тому

      They were all too thick to invest, all the so called big boys from that day died penniless, I think the Richardson brothers are the only ones from that era who had brains.

  • @stevenking607
    @stevenking607 2 роки тому +1

    Top lads

  • @CRAIG5835
    @CRAIG5835 2 роки тому +3

    Brown Bread the GOAT UK OG.

  • @yomommaahotoo264
    @yomommaahotoo264 2 роки тому +7

    The Milk man got away with his part, huh?

  • @kenjack6674
    @kenjack6674 2 роки тому +1

    THE TREATMENT ...GO ON Freddy !!! Ha Ha ...

  • @robertkelly9349
    @robertkelly9349 2 місяці тому

    As of the 16th of April 2024 Freddie Forman is 92 years old. Not bad for an East End armed robber! The only other one's still alive that I know of is Eddie Richardson 88 years old and Chris Lambrianou 94 years old.

  • @maxcullen3427
    @maxcullen3427 2 роки тому +7

    Horsley was just a grass
    Freddie was a legendary gangster defo a class act

  • @mickharrison9004
    @mickharrison9004 2 роки тому +4

    Fkin horsely talk about double crossing everyone is an understatement a sad state of affairs after the lads and done so well .

  • @Steven_Rowe
    @Steven_Rowe 14 днів тому

    Great documentary but I despise these people for what they do to the little man who simply wants to go to work and earn money to simply live, im talking about the security gaurds.
    The controller must have been so traumatised by knowing some madman with a sawn off is point it at you.

  • @opencarrier8607
    @opencarrier8607 2 роки тому +4

    Supergrass lol.

  • @dagre1839
    @dagre1839 2 роки тому +3

    I can't imagine anyone who is even half successful risk getting locked up for years and years in a cell with a couple men, you would never get to see your wife and kids if you were married, and you would never get to see a woman if you were single. They must be completely daft.

  • @jpmtlhead39
    @jpmtlhead39 Рік тому +1

    There are perfect crimes. The ones that are Solved,are from a mistake of One of the culprits or someone snichting.
    12 years ago,here in my country,a security van was robbed in the Middle of the main country's highway,during rush hour. 50 million € were stolen,in Broad daylight in front of dozens of people.
    They used plastic explosives to get in the van. Nobody was hurt,and it took only 90 seconds to do that.
    If anyone Saw the movie "Heat", it was like that.
    12 years after,and not even a single clue of the culprits. Its a cold case by now.
    Was a perfect robbery,like many others.
    The only ones that come to mainstream attention are the one's involving large amounts of money or important people.
    Some are Solved, but the big ones never.
    Like this One. 50 million € in 90 seconds.
    Unfortunably i have to give some credit to this people. Getting rich in 90 seconds,without anyone getting hurt in the process,its not for everyone.
    Like i said,those guys must watched "Heat" dozens of Times as inspiration . Ive seen the movie dozens of Times,just because i love the movie.
    PS :like the biggest heist in history,that few people know abaut.
    Everybody knows abaut the stolen Nazy's Gold,but few knows what happen to that gold after the war. From what ive read and seen on documentaries, some "few" Tons of gold bullion and jewels,were never been recovered after they were found by American troops,in caves in Bavaria and Áustria.
    From the 80 tons of gold found by americans,only 60 tons were officialy registered. The other 20 Tons of Pure gold,only a few American soldiers know (knew) were they went.
    A perfect heist,80 years ago.

  • @rosemaryfarell5264
    @rosemaryfarell5264 2 роки тому +3

    Fred is a LEGEND.

  • @loretta_3843
    @loretta_3843 2 роки тому +6

    I have to ask, why is an officer shown in a full on forensic suit that goes over the head but the officer going into the spot where money is hidden doesn't even have a pair of gloves on?

    • @adeh503
      @adeh503 2 роки тому +2

      I think it was more gene hunt style in those days the other guy had probably just come back from the pub

  • @yomommaahotoo264
    @yomommaahotoo264 7 місяців тому

    NEVER keep your contraband in your crib bro.

  • @lifewithlyza4488
    @lifewithlyza4488 2 роки тому +2

    👍 👍 👍

  • @craxmaanmuuse510
    @craxmaanmuuse510 2 роки тому +1

    Dreeeam people baa sida caruurta daawada fictionada iyo dhalaan habaabista techtaa dabadeed u badatay handle garaysay.

  • @jaywalkercrew4446
    @jaywalkercrew4446 2 роки тому

    Never knew it was in shoreditch

  • @shauncarney8504
    @shauncarney8504 2 роки тому

    Freddie foreman was a legend in the underworld people call him brown bread fred not many old skool gangsters about like Freddie today

  • @aliengrey6052
    @aliengrey6052 2 роки тому +1

    Have you noticed criminals always have similar faces. From the krays to these lot.

  • @thehangmancometh1813
    @thehangmancometh1813 2 роки тому +4

    they spent the money on prossies, strippers, coke and wasted the rest.

  • @uncleTee2023
    @uncleTee2023 Рік тому

    Never meet in a pub!! That should be obvious. Surely they could put the bags somewhere instead of roping in Horsely. Come on! The more people involved the greater the risk of informers. Criminals are cunning but not smart. They need someone in the team who is not necessarily in the criminal underworld to handle the post-robbery aspect.

  • @berniefynn6623
    @berniefynn6623 2 роки тому +2

    Heist is American slang, use robbery.this word is from the new yorkers pronouncing hoist as heist.

  • @fusiliers1
    @fusiliers1 2 роки тому

    £8,000,000 to sort out and the last important man turns up 2,29pm
    7,5 hours later

  • @130crowd
    @130crowd 2 роки тому +8

    When it becomes clear no one was killed or even hurt, this crime became a "caper."
    All this time and so much £ is still missing! Not the best police work.

    • @keithdonnellan5564
      @keithdonnellan5564 2 роки тому +1

      Pity the police didn't spend more time on sooties knife crime & drug dealing. The Krays were not a threat to us ordinary people. I met Charlie Kray in the 1980's when he got out.

  • @scottkimber2612
    @scottkimber2612 2 роки тому +1

    "BROWN BREAD "

  • @normancomerford6148
    @normancomerford6148 Рік тому

    "It's a dog-eat-dog world...."
    (depends on whether you're a Doberman or a Chihuahua)

  • @albert723
    @albert723 2 роки тому

    Right on his niags lol

  • @CARLIN4737
    @CARLIN4737 2 роки тому +1

    32 million never recovered...

  • @Retroscoop
    @Retroscoop 2 роки тому

    Of course, there were clues. At least one big one. No one with no inside knowledge could have pulled it off.

    • @0000dear
      @0000dear 2 роки тому

      I think one of the guards got caught with 40 grand in his attic

    • @dagre1839
      @dagre1839 2 роки тому

      I can't see how they could have done it without inside help, big lie from the authorities as usual

    • @0000dear
      @0000dear 2 роки тому

      @@dagre1839 I know someone who worked there at the time and they said it was.

  • @andrewbarker4986
    @andrewbarker4986 2 роки тому +3

    BEA merged with BOAC on 01 April 1974 so if he did get forced onto a Trident it would have been British Airways.

    • @stephenuden6403
      @stephenuden6403 2 роки тому +1

      looks like the filming was at the AVP at MAN.

  • @hurchgoer
    @hurchgoer 2 роки тому

    ...

  • @peterreece2340
    @peterreece2340 2 роки тому

    22:38 I am amused that this reenactment would show the robbers armed with an old "rabbit ears" 12 G double barreled shotgun.

  • @Cakaholic365
    @Cakaholic365 Рік тому

    Only thing worse than a grass is a super-grass

  • @keithrose6931
    @keithrose6931 2 роки тому +1

    He opens the door to get a pint of milk . Wtf !

    • @markbishop1588
      @markbishop1588 Рік тому +1

      There was a cash depot in the East End that had a coal-scuttle type opening in the wall.The milkman would just pull it open+ask the guard inside how many pints he wanted over the intercom.Put the bottles in +push it shut.Guard didn't need to leave his post.

  • @johnsmith-rs2vk
    @johnsmith-rs2vk 2 роки тому

    Forgot the camera man , with double vision !

  • @brandonsoal-bo5fl
    @brandonsoal-bo5fl Рік тому

    Their professional robbers and they did think about getting the money out of the country

  • @stephenuden6403
    @stephenuden6403 2 роки тому +4

    His words he has no regret what he did, my thoughts to the person dowsed in petrol and the other hostages, I only hope he had an interesting time showering whilst in prison which is where he should still be for life

  • @cynthiatolman326
    @cynthiatolman326 2 роки тому

    If I'm reading this correctly, this man should be in prison, not in a documentary.

    • @gutz323
      @gutz323 2 роки тому +1

      You're not reading it correctly then. This robbery happened in 1983. Freddie Foreman was not a robber per se. He was just involved in hiding the money after the act. He got 9 years.

    • @jaywalkercrew4446
      @jaywalkercrew4446 2 роки тому

      We don’t give out 15 life sentences in this country.

    • @shajanjacob1576
      @shajanjacob1576 2 роки тому

      American law abiding woman?!

  • @Johnny53kgb-nsa
    @Johnny53kgb-nsa 9 місяців тому

    If they were involved with the mob, they would have snuffed them out right after the robbery.

  • @peterkiburio8323
    @peterkiburio8323 2 роки тому +2

    Crime does not pay, with all that money the end result is a jail term.

    • @uttaradit2
      @uttaradit2 2 роки тому +3

      unless you own the banks

    • @Wally-H
      @Wally-H Рік тому

      Following which the come out and live the life or Reilly on the money the police never recovered.

  • @user-vx4ku3cb8l
    @user-vx4ku3cb8l Рік тому

    r i p ronnie knight died a few days back

  • @albert723
    @albert723 2 роки тому

    Fred's a legend though

  • @simonroberts960
    @simonroberts960 8 місяців тому

    Riveting..

  • @salfordladakakingy8597
    @salfordladakakingy8597 2 роки тому

    👍

  • @terranceparsons5185
    @terranceparsons5185 7 місяців тому

    How English is that, the need for a cup of tea led to the robbery.

  • @tonyjones7372
    @tonyjones7372 2 роки тому

    41.20 WTF going on with that wig??

  • @johnsmith-rs2vk
    @johnsmith-rs2vk 2 роки тому +1

    Armed blaggers , safeblowers , the geli man (most respected ) pavement jobs , long firms , fences , dippers and hoisers . The good old days RIP .

    • @Retroscoop
      @Retroscoop 2 роки тому +1

      Shouldn't that be "alias john smith" ?

    • @johnsmith-rs2vk
      @johnsmith-rs2vk 2 роки тому

      @@Retroscoop NO . A little bit of form . but now all spent ,

    • @johnsmith-rs2vk
      @johnsmith-rs2vk 2 роки тому

      EXACTLY .

    • @johnsmith-rs2vk
      @johnsmith-rs2vk 2 роки тому

      @@Retroscoop A little bit of form , but now all spent , years ago !

    • @Marvin-dg8vj
      @Marvin-dg8vj 2 роки тому

      Unless you were on the receiving end in which case it could be very nasty.

  • @SML1010THAI
    @SML1010THAI 2 роки тому +1

    Forman as a son brilliant actor.

  • @fusiliers1
    @fusiliers1 2 роки тому +1

    Why all 7 security office had a busy day too deal with £8,000,000
    Why would teh last officer arrive at 2,15pm over 7 hours after the first one turned
    What a load of BULL$HIT

    • @johnsmith9161
      @johnsmith9161 2 роки тому

      They were drivers of the vans who would go out on the cash pickups it said the customers were calling asking where they were.

  • @reillymoore3257
    @reillymoore3257 2 роки тому +2

    💸 💸

  • @williamdwyer8897
    @williamdwyer8897 2 роки тому

    Jhppottttttttttt