Take a look: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4745210.stm Looks like theve got 2 suspects now, amazing plan! Almost like the storyline of a movie! I kinda want them to get away with it!
From what I heard (I didnt read all of the article), it was extremely well planned and executed. My hat is off to them if they get away with it.
I wouldnt mind if they got away with it aslong as NOONE was harmed. I mean hats off indeed for pulling off an oceans 11 style hit. If they harmed anyone i hope they get their asses put in the pen.
WTF is all this 'hats' off crap? Sure it was clever but no, it's not cool, it's ARMED ROBBERY and KIDNAP of a terrified family. How would you like it if someone kinapped your wife and child at gunpoint then afterwards a bunch of people on a forum said "Cool, hope they get away with it"? They're not George Clooney and Brad Pitt, that's made up. Besides this money was destined for Cashpoints and Supermarkets, which means they're not ripping off some profit hoarding casino.
Wrong on 2 accounts there.(going by the local news ITV and the bbc) The people that took his wife and kid posed as police officer and made out that he had been in an accident, so they went with them. And according to a few sources the money was on its way to banks form supermarkets etc so a lot of it might be untraceable. The main point is its gonan be near impossible to launder all that money or even .
Actually, they were all taken away under pretences to get them to go quietly and then tied up and held on the site at gunpoint. I'd say that's pretty terrifying. And either coming from or to banks is irrelevant, point being is that this money wasn't hoarded on site by a corporate entity for their own coffers. So even if you consider my specifics slightly incorrect it still doesn't change my point.
Kidnapping and armed robbery is wrong. Stealing money is wrong. It doesn't matter how flash or clever you go about it, or how much you manage to steal. In this thread some of the same people that are moaning how we should have tougher punishment for heinous crimes are glamourising hardened criminals here. No wonder law enforcement in this country is screwed up. FFS... The problem is that some dude raping his 14-year old stepdaughter or some chav beating a kid to death is not someone people like to identify with, so they identify with the victims. Some people stealing a cool 40 million is someone people very much like to identify with however, and they consequently forget all about the victims' side of things. How is this crime any different from someone holding a terrified cashier at gunpoint and threatening her family while robbing a till? The execution was more complex, the money bigger, but the crime is just as low-life.
nor does it help with the likes of movies and video games glamourising it all,not that im saying these are to blame for it, just a route for people to relate to it more. its already been compared to the oceans twelve heist in this thread, thats a main point on how people can kind of want them to get away with it. its not a film, its real life and i wouldnt even like to say what would have happened if someone/thing had happened and someone had been injured during this, which is something that could have easily happened if they were armed. ive been on the end of a armed robbery and its not pleasent by any means, it wasnt quite on this scale though. and it is quite traumatic.
Didn't actually read the whole story, only saw a bit of it on the news just after it happened. Didn't realise that people were held at gunpoint and it was armed.
Is it just me or is this nearly exactly the same plan that was used in ireland last year // the year before?
There was a crime expert on the news earlier that said there was an added chance (aside from the £2M reward ) of someone in the criminal underworld 'ratting' them out because of the involvement of a child. It was a cheap and easy tactic to get someone to comply with their demands. What's especially sickening is that these robbers went out of their way to include the family in their plan. The family wasn't in the wrong place at the wrong time, they were used and put in direct danger. If anything went wrong, I wonder who would of been the first to get hurt?
