The £350 Million Mistake

November 7, 2000. High tide at 10:47 AM. Four men in gas masks prepare to execute the most audacious robbery in British history.

Lee Wenham's plan was flawless. Months of surveillance had mapped every security camera, every guard rotation, every vulnerable second at the Millennium Dome. The modified JCB digger bristled with steel spikes, ready to tear through supposedly impregnable barriers. Smoke grenades would blind the cameras. Industrial nail guns would shatter bomb-proof glass. The Thames would carry them to freedom with over £200 million in diamonds.

What they didn't know was that other eyes had been watching them.

Detective Inspector Jon Shatford had turned their perfect crime into the perfect trap. Over 200 officers lay concealed throughout the Dome, some hidden behind false walls just meters from the target. The diamonds glittering in their cases weren't even real—switched days earlier in the most elaborate deception in police history.

As the spike-studded monster crashed through the Dome's perimeter fence, chaos erupted. White smoke billowed through exhibition halls as terrified visitors fled. The gang moved like military commandos through the chemical haze, believing victory was within their grasp.

But in the hidden tunnels beneath their feet, police officers waited with supernatural patience for the moment to spring their trap.

This is the incredible true story of criminal masterminds who planned for every contingency except one—that the police were better at their game than the criminals were at theirs. From the derelict workshops where weapons were forged to the Old Bailey where justice was served, witness the collision between criminal innovation and law enforcement brilliance that redefined both.

Some called it the crime of the century. Others called it the investigation of the century.

The truth is more extraordinary than either.

Experience the most gripping true crime story of the new millennium—where every detail was planned to perfection, every move calculated with precision, and every outcome certain… until the very last step changed everything.

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