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Daily Mirror
3 days ago
- Daily Mirror
Brink's-Mat robbery links to Pablo Escobar and Muriel McKay murder revealed
A criminal quizzed over the 1969 abduction and murder of Muriel McKay later helped British villains to hide the proceeds of the Brink's-Mat gold bullion robbery Brink's-Mat robbery cash was hidden offshore with the help of a criminal quizzed over the kidnapping and murder Muriel McKay, a Daily Mirror investigation can reveal. Adam Hosein was working for drug lord Pablo Escobar when he provided "legal and business" introductions for a British man suspected of laundering the proceeds of the 1983 gold heist. Hosein had previously been questioned about Mrs McKay's 1969 murder after she was abducted having been mistaken for the then-wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Adam's younger brothers, Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein, were convicted of the murder at the Old Bailey in 1970 and jailed despite her body having never been found. Adam, now dead, fled the UK for his native Trinidad and later settled in Florida where he ran front companies for Escobar - portrayed in Netflix hit Narcos - in the 1980s. The Daily Mirror can now reveal that in January 1987 a man then suspected of laundering proceeds of Britain's biggest ever robbery, flew from London to Trinidad to meet Hosein. Police records show the pair then travelled on to Panama and Miami in Florida. Asked earlier this month about his dealings with Hosein, the man, now in his 70s, who we are not naming for legal reasons, told the Mirror: "While Adam Hosein may have been busy in other 'arenas', he had no direct involvement in BM [Brink's-Mat] other than facilitating legal and business intros. Networking etc.." Our revelations come as the latest series of BBC drama The Gold focuses on Scotland Yard's attempts to trace the proceeds of the Brink's-Mat robbery. It opens with the stolen bullion having been split into two, with one half hidden in a disused Cornish tin mine for years before being moved around the world. The gold was indeed split between the six robbers, with South London armed blaggers "Mad" Micky McAvoy and Brian "The Colonel" Robinson controlling one half, along with Brian Perry. The three other raiders, John "Little Legs" Lloyd, Tony White and John Fleming had the rest. After Robinson and McAvoy were jailed for the robbery the pair were cheated out of their share when Perry brought in fraudster Gordon Parry to help him hide the cash. The money allegedly hidden offshore with the help of Hosein, came from this half. A huge leak of confidential documents known as the "Panama Papers" revealed in 2016 that Parry laundered some of the cash using a company set up in the central American country. Ex-Brink's-Mat detective Ian Brown told the Mirror: "When this crime happened the most scared people of anybody were the villains because they were stuck with gold, what are they going to do with it? They are going to get money, what are they going to do with it? "They were used to ten grand, twenty grand for a robbery and they can hide that and spend it and go off on holiday and do other things but you can't with 26 million. Suddenly they were in the position of having to rely on other people to do things they were not capable of doing and that's hide money. "They have managed to find people who were capable of doing it." The other half of the gold was moved by M25 killer Kenneth Noye and Hatton Garden heist mastermind Brian Reader. They gave it to John "Goldfinger" Palmer in Bristol who smelted it in his back garden. We can now reveal that a British former solicitor's clerk suspected of hiding some of this half of the proceeds offshore has taken the secrets of the missing gold to his grave. Geoffrey Greenlees was accused of banking £4.1 raised from the stolen bullion in Dubai and was wanted by police. Greenlees was later named as a shareholder and director of a string of shell companies in the leaked Panama Papers. But he passed away in the Philippines four years ago aged 84 having never been arrested. He was named in court as being linked to this group through Jean Savage, robber Lloyd's common law wife. The former tobacconist from West Kingsdown in Kent, played by Dorothy Atkinson in the drama, is understood to still live with Lloyd in the same area. Savage's 1990 trial heard how she deposited plastic bags full of £50 notes at the Bank of Ireland in Croydon, South London, which totalled £2.5 million. It grew with interest to £4.1 million before Savage then allegedly transferred it into an account held by Greenlees in Dubai, Michael Austin-Smith, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey. Detectives said they wanted to question Greenlees and Lloyd, who had gone on the run. Lloyd, a close friend of Noye, played by Jack Lowden in the drama, fled to the United States while officers said at the time that Greenlees was last heard of in Jakarta. Ex-Brink's detective Tony Curtis, who spent 13 years on the investigation, told the Mirror he flew to the Indonesian capital in a vain attempt to track Greenlees down. Mr Curtis said: "There was no sign of him." Greenlees ended up living in Manila where he was patron and "Godfather" of the Philippine Lawn Bowls Association. A Facebook tribute to him on the Association's website said: "He died peacefully beside his family members." Only two of the robbers were convicted but they were all forced to pay out compensation to the insurers following a civil claim. Fleming, from south London, was charged with handling the gold but a London magistrate threw out the case in 1987. He is understood to have died while living on a barge in London. When Mr Brown caught up with Noye and his fellow launderers most of the gold had been sold, the cash offshore. The investigation, headed by controversial detective Tony Lundy, moved unofficially to Alicante, Spain. Bugs at Fleming's villa revealed he was moving money through an Isle of Man firm with the help of bent lawyer Patrick Diamond. Brown and Lundy flew to the British Virgin Islands, where they found links to a mafia hitman and US and Colombian drug cartels. Fleming, Diamond and Lloyd were ordered to repay huge sums after being sued by the insurers. Noye was jailed for 14 years for handling the gold with Brian Reader, who got eight. Also jailed for their part in the later operation alongside Savage were Perry, financier Parry and solicitor Michael Relton. John "Goldfinger"Palmer was acquitted of handling the gold. He and Perry were later shot dead. Of the suspected robbers just Lloyd, in Kent, and White, in South London, are believed to still be alive. Noye, now 78, served 19 years for murdering Stephen Cameron on an M25 slip road. The Mirror revealed in 2023 his links to a £40m carbon credit scheme. Mr Brown said of the Brink's-Mat proceeds: "I think it's out there but multiplied perhaps ten, twenty, thirty, forty times. It has earned hundreds of millions of pounds from the 26 million that went from Heathrow."
Telegraph
10-06-2025
- Sport
- Telegraph
England vs West Indies: Score and latest updates from third T20
6:51PM OVER 4: ENG 51/0 (Smith 28 Duckett 23) Smith retreats to leg, clears the front leg and thumps a lofted drive off Shepherd over cover for four. He goes for it again but doesn't connect properly and pops it over cover for two off the toe. He has been moving horizontally across his crease but now Smith moves vertically as well, dropping back and over to off to mow Shepherd over midwicket for six and ends the over by picking the slower ball and lofting it straight back on the drive for four. 6:47PM OVER 3: ENG 33/0 (Smith 11 Duckett 22) West Indies post a point sweeper and a deep backward square to stop Duckett's orthodox and reverse sweep so he simply clumps a slog sweep over midwicket for four. He comes down the track to Hosein's next delivery and spoons it back over the bowler's head without middling it. Nonetheless it clears the retreating mid-on and they run two. The left-hander leans across to fetch one Hosein tries to hide outside off-stump and clears the sweeper at backward square for a steepling six then hammers a straight drive on the charge for four more. By trying to stifle his reverse-sweep, they opened up midwicket and he punished them. The challenge here is very different to diddy Bristol. The playing area is vast, possibly the largest of England's home venues. At various others, that plink down the ground from Duckett would have gone for six. I suspect that a big score will be achieved by a steady cruising speed throughout the innings rather than a big, six-fuelled acceleration like the West Indies had the other night. Anyway, very good start from Duckett and England. 6:40PM OVER 2: ENG 16/0 (Smith 10 Duckett 6) Jason Holder opens the bowling from the Pavilion End. Smith drives crisply through the covers for two and the opens the face to smear a single through point. Duckett flicks Holder behind square for a single though the initial call was for two. The ball rifled across the grass too quickly for that to be feasible. Smith chances his arm with an expansive shot, driving on the up over mid-on for four but then splices his pull over midwicket for a single when the bat speed and intent suggested a boundary all the way. 6:35PM OVER 1: ENG 7/0 (Smith 2 Duckett 5) The slow left-armer starts round the wicket to Smith who uses the curve to drive through mid-on for a single. A wee breeze gives the spinner some drift in to the right-hander, and away from Duckett who works a single away between mid-on and midwicket. Smith shuffles back in his crease to clip the arm-ball through mid-on for another before Duckett ends the over with a clumping reverse-sweep, picking the ball off off-stump square for four. Good evening from the Utilita Bowl. Warm evening here. It's been a sorry trip for the West Indies – the women were whitewashed, and now the men might be too. On another note, I wondered if England might rest Brydon Carse, given his importance to the Test team in 10 days' time. But he's a key ally of Brook and a big part of this team. 6:30PM The teams are out And Akeal Hosein, the left-arm spinner, has the new ball. 6:29PM Longest boundaries in the series Aaron Finch is the only player to make a hundred in a T20I at Southampton, 156 vs England in 2013. In that match Joe Root made an unbeaten 90, the next highest score in the 12 T20Is played at the Rose Bowl. 6:08PM Harry Brook speaks 'We want to start nailing teams down into the ground. Come out and play the same way, try to have a dominant finish to the series.' He goes on to say they are unchanged because he wants the players to get used to the feeling of winning. 'People say winning is a habit. That's something we have to get going towards that World Cup in February next year. We want to keep on motoring the way we have done.' 6:06PM Team news England are unchanged. West Indies bring in Shimron Hetmyer for Roston Chase. England Smith, Duckett, Buttler (wk), Brook (capt), Banton, Bethell, Jacks, Dawson, Carse, Rashid, Wood. West Indies Lewis, Charles, Hetmyer, Hope (capt/wk), Rutherford, Powell, Shepherd, Holder, Motie, A Joseph, Hosein. 6:03PM West Indies win the toss And have put England in to bat. Shai Hope: 'We're going to back ourselves chasing here.' Harry Brook says he would have bowled first, too 'but what will be will be'.
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
England reduce West Indies to 117-4 in second T20
Spinner Hosein in for Windies after landing in UK on Sunday morning following visa issues
The Star
06-06-2025
- Sport
- The Star
Cricket-UK visa issues rule Hosein out of West Indies' T20 opener in England
FILE PHOTO: Cricket - Second One Day International - South Africa v West Indies - Buffalo Park, East London, South Africa - March 18, 2023 West Indies' Akeal Hosein in action REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo (Reuters) -West Indies' left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein has been ruled out of the opening match of their three-match Twenty20 series against England after he and fellow Trinidadian Jyd Goolie were unable to meet visa requirements. The first T20 match takes place at the Riverside Ground in Durham on Friday and the players could potentially miss the entire series. West Indies Cricket (CWI) said on Friday that the updated UK visa entry requirements for Trinidad and Tobago citizens, which came into effect on April 23 and May 12 required both players to submit visa applications and attend mandatory in-person appointments. CWI director Miles Bascombe explained that Hosein, who was selected for both the England and Ireland legs of the tour, could not fulfil the new visa requirements in time as he was playing in the Pakistan Super League, which wrapped up late due to the India-Pakistan conflict last month. Goolie, who was a late addition to the squad, "was unable to secure the required visa waiver, as the transition period for Trinidad and Tobago residents had already expired." "These processes are ultimately governed by UK immigration authorities and remain outside of CWI's control," the board said. "CWI remains optimistic that the matter will be resolved in the coming days, allowing Hosein to join the squad for the remaining matches." (Reporting by Shifa Jahan in BengaluruEditing by Toby Davis)
Straits Times
06-06-2025
- Sport
- Straits Times
UK visa issues rule Hosein out of West Indies' T20 opener in England
West Indies' left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein has been ruled out of the opening match of their three-match Twenty20 series against England after he and fellow Trinidadian Jyd Goolie were unable to meet visa requirements. The first T20 match takes place at the Riverside Ground in Durham on Friday and the players could potentially miss the entire series. West Indies Cricket (CWI) said on Friday that the updated UK visa entry requirements for Trinidad and Tobago citizens, which came into effect on April 23 and May 12 required both players to submit visa applications and attend mandatory in-person appointments. CWI director Miles Bascombe explained that Hosein, who was selected for both the England and Ireland legs of the tour, could not fulfil the new visa requirements in time as he was playing in the Pakistan Super League, which wrapped up late due to the India-Pakistan conflict last month. Goolie, who was a late addition to the squad, "was unable to secure the required visa waiver, as the transition period for Trinidad and Tobago residents had already expired." "These processes are ultimately governed by UK immigration authorities and remain outside of CWI's control," the board said. "CWI remains optimistic that the matter will be resolved in the coming days, allowing Hosein to join the squad for the remaining matches." REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
