The Northern Bank Job: The Heist and How They Got Away with It

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 drivers, guards, watchers and gun