A recent discovery of tapes has unveiled new details surrounding the Eastcastle Street robbery in 1952, which saw over £287,000 stolen from a Post Office van, equating to about £7.3 million today. This primarily unsolved case involved a meticulously planned criminal operation with seven robbers who have yet to be identified. Historian Dr. Mark Roodhouse found that investigators knew more about the crime than publicly disclosed, suggesting a deep level of organization, planning, and cover-up strategies that complicate the narrative of the robbery compared to police records and media portrayals.
The new tapes reveal the Eastcastle Street robbery was a meticulously planned crime, involving mail workers and complex cover-up strategies that were not widely known.
Despite extensive investigation and known suspects, the seven men who executed Britain's largest postwar robbery remain unconvicted and unidentified.
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