On the Easter bank holiday weekend of 2015, one of the most daring diamond heists in British history occurred in London’s Hatton Garden District. With potentially 40 million pounds worth of jewels missing, Scotland Yard’s elite robbery and organized crime unit — the Flying Squad — was put on the case. It was clear from the beginning that the heist was carried out by a highly-skilled group of thieves, but the Flying Squad officers struggled to uncover their identity. That is until CCTV footage revealed they were a rag-tag gang of criminals that have been on their radar for a long, long time. 

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