New BBC drama Gold kicked off on Sunday, February 12. The six-parter stars Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville, Dominic Cooper from Marvel's Captain America and Mamma Mia, Jack Lowden of Slow Horses and Sanditon's Charlotte Spencer. Read more about the series here.
The Gold tells the story of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery, which saw six armed men break into the aforementioned security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumble across gold bullion worth £26m. The majority of the stolen gold has never been recovered, with a substantial amount believed to have been melted down by notorious criminal John Palmer in a garden shed at his residence in Lansdowne, near Bath.
In the series, Welsh actor Tom Cullen plays Palmer, who was Britain's richest criminal at one point- even beating the Queen on the Sunday Times Rich List - after building a fortune of around £300 million. This was achieved through a combination of money laundering, fraud, racketeering and legitimate businesses. He even earned himself the nickname, ‘Goldfinger’. But what happened to him?
