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The Great Train Robbery remains the most notorious railway heist in British history. In 1963, a gang of armed robbers stopped a night mail train travelling from Glasgow to London, stealing over £2.63 million.
Join Crime Museum curator, Paul Bickley to hear the full story behind the “crime of the century”. Learn how fingerprints from a Monopoly board, a bottle of tomato ketchup, and other everyday items, helped convict gang member Ronnie Biggs, and why forensic evidence is still crucial to the detection of crime 60 years later.
Paul Bickley has been Curator of the Metropolitan Police’s Crime Museum since 2012