[5] The mastermind behind the raid was London gangster Billy Hill and the robbers included George "Taters" Chatham[6] and Terry "Lucky Tel" Hogan.
[1] Prime Minister Winston Churchill demanded daily updates on the police investigation and the Postmaster General, Earl de la Warr, was required to report to the Parliament of the United Kingdom on what had gone wrong.
[7] The plot of Alexander Mackendrick's 1955 comedy film The Ladykillers references the robbery, which was still unsolved at the time, and implies that the characters had a hand in it.
Coincidentally, a film made the year prior to the incident, The Lavender Hill Mob showed a Bank of England bullion van being waylaid in a very similar manner.
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