2 w. ago Glamorous new life of Millennium Dome raider immortalised on Netflix

Aldo Ciarrocchi, now 55, was part of the infamous Millennium Dome diamond heist that ended in complete failure and is now the subject of Guy Richie's Netflix hit "The Diamond Heist"

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2 w. ago Netflix viewers rave over thrilling new series that's knocked Black Mirror off top spot

The Diamond Heist - which is a three-part series about a plot to steal a diamond from a collection inside the Millennium Dome in 2000 - was released by Netflix last week

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3 w. ago Netflix's Diamond Heist: How 'cursed' Millennium Dome raid was thwarted by police

In November 2000, a gang of thieves attempted to steal a diamond valued at an extraordinary £200million in what could have been the world's largest diamond heist in history

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3 w. ago The Diamond Heist review – Guy Ritchie’s thrilling tale of the failed Millennium Dome jewel robbery

This three-part documentary about the attempt to steal hundreds of millions of pounds’ worth of diamonds is pacey and stylish – but it definitely didn’t need to glamorise the real-life violenceI suppose the wonder is that it has taken Guy Ritchie so long to get around to telling the story of the Millennium Dome robbery, in which – way back at the turn of the century, children – a group of south-east London criminals ram-raided a national joke in pursuit of the 203-carat Millennium Star diamond worth £200m, which De Beers had unaccountably agreed to display in the capital’s gangster heartland.Strictly speaking, Richie himself is not telling it; the three-part documentary The Diamond Heist comes from Oscar and Emmy award-winning company Lightbox and is executive produced by Ritchie. But the subject matter is so perfectly him that any meaningful separation in your mind as you watch it collapses quicker than a Greenwich exhibition venue’s shutters under the weight of a JCB driven at spe...

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3 w. ago The biggest heist that never happened: how thieves almost stole £350m of diamonds from the Millennium Dome

The story of how one of the biggest attempted heists of all time collapsed has now been made into a Netflix documentary, courtesy of Guy Ritchie

Economics

4 w. ago The Diamond Heist: how thieves almost stole £350m of diamonds from the Millennium Dome

The story of how one of the biggest attempted heists of all time collapsed has now been made into a Netflix documentary, courtesy of Guy Ritchie

Economics

4 w. ago 'Gangster Grandad' caught in £350m Millennium Dome diamond heist has only one regret

Lee Wenham and his gang decided to pull off the heist of the century and nab the 203-carat de Beers diamond from the Millennium Dome, but little did they know their plan was doomed...

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