The true story of one of the biggest bank heists in Irish and British history - and the questions that remain.
On a Sunday evening in December 2004, two young men were at home with their families. Both worked for the Northern Bank-s cash centre in Belfast. They heard knocks on their front doors. Within a few minutes, masked men invaded their homes, overpowered their loved ones and disabled their electronic devices. It was made clear to the two bank officials that they had a choice: do what they were told or their families would die.
Over the course of the following day, -26.5 million was stolen from the Northern Bank: the biggest cash heist in Irish and British history. The two men whose families were held hostage simply re-labelled vast amounts of cash as rubbish and wheeled huge bags to a van waiting outside in the street, yards from Belfast-s City Hall. The robbers- knowledge of the inner workings of the bank was astonishing. They deployed a large crew of dri
