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Business Insider
6 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
How the Millennium Dome diamond heist actually worked
In 2000, Lee Wenham planned what would have been the world's largest jewel heist, targeting De Beers diamonds valued at more than $500 million. The plan involved a dramatic raid on London's Millennium Dome, an excavator, and a speedboat for the getaway. The Met Police's Flying Squad thwarted the operation, though, and arrested Wenham and his accomplices before they could get to the diamonds. Wenham opens up about his gang's meticulous planning, its surveillance, and the security around the gems. After leaving prison in May 2005, Wenham started a landscaping business. He was the subject of the Guy Ritchie Netflix documentary "The Diamond Heist" and wrote a memoir, "Diamond Gangster." For more, visit:
Scotsman
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Black Work: classic ITV show becomes Netflix hit
Watch more of our videos on and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 Visit Shots! now Netflix's UK chart has been topped by an ITV drama from 2015 👀 Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... ITV drama Black Work has become a hit on Netflix UK. The three-part series has topped the streaming chart. But what exactly is Black Work about? A classic ITV drama has shot to the top of Netflix's UK chart ahead of blockbuster shows like Black Mirror. Sheridan Smith stars in the 2015 thriller Black Work and it has recently arrived on the streaming service. The three-part drama originally aired on terrestrial TV almost a decade ago and attracted a peak audience of over eight million. It follows a widowed police officer who begins to investigate her own husband's death. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Netflix has added a new feature its its iOS apps to make watching entire shows even easier. | AFP via Getty Images It has now found further success on Netflix after being released on the streamer. Here's all you need to know: Black Work tops Netflix UK chart The most popular show on Netflix in the UK is the 2015 ITV drama Black Work - as of the morning of Thursday April 24. If you missed it when it aired on TV a decade ago, now is the perfect chance to catch up. Sheridan Smith | Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images It has jumped ahead of shows like Black Mirror, Ransom Canyon, and The Diamond Heist to top the streamer's TV chart. However with You just releasing its final season, it may soon lose that place. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad What is Black Work about? The synopsis for the show on Netflix reads: 'A widowed police officer defies orders and begins her own investigation into her husband's death, revealing secrets from his undercover work.' As previously mentioned, it originally aired on ITV back in June and July of 2015. Sheridan Smith stars as P.C. Jo Gillespie, while other familiar faces include Matthew McNulty and Andrew Knott. Have you got a story you want to share with our readers? You can now send it to us online via YourWorld at . It's free to use and, once checked, your story will appear on our website and, space allowing, in our newspapers.
Scotsman
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Black Work: classic ITV show becomes Netflix hit
Netflix's UK chart has been topped by an ITV drama from 2015 👀 Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... ITV drama Black Work has become a hit on Netflix UK. The three-part series has topped the streaming chart. But what exactly is Black Work about? A classic ITV drama has shot to the top of Netflix's UK chart ahead of blockbuster shows like Black Mirror. Sheridan Smith stars in the 2015 thriller Black Work and it has recently arrived on the streaming service. The three-part drama originally aired on terrestrial TV almost a decade ago and attracted a peak audience of over eight million. It follows a widowed police officer who begins to investigate her own husband's death. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Netflix has added a new feature its its iOS apps to make watching entire shows even easier. | AFP via Getty Images It has now found further success on Netflix after being released on the streamer. Here's all you need to know: Black Work tops Netflix UK chart The most popular show on Netflix in the UK is the 2015 ITV drama Black Work - as of the morning of Thursday April 24. If you missed it when it aired on TV a decade ago, now is the perfect chance to catch up. Sheridan Smith | Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images It has jumped ahead of shows like Black Mirror, Ransom Canyon, and The Diamond Heist to top the streamer's TV chart. However with You just releasing its final season, it may soon lose that place. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad What is Black Work about? The synopsis for the show on Netflix reads: 'A widowed police officer defies orders and begins her own investigation into her husband's death, revealing secrets from his undercover work.' As previously mentioned, it originally aired on ITV back in June and July of 2015. Sheridan Smith stars as P.C. Jo Gillespie, while other familiar faces include Matthew McNulty and Andrew Knott.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Millennium Dome raider who left crime for middle-class family life
One of the Millennium Dome raiders' comfortable middle-class family life has been revealed. Aldo Ciarrocchi was jailed for his role in the failed attempt in 2000 to steal the £350 million Millennium Star diamond from the south-east London venue. The 55-year-old is now a millionaire father-of-two married to an American former fashion model. Ciarrocchi was responsible for setting off smoke bombs as a distraction during the failed heist. But the Metropolitan Police had been tipped off by an informer and snared the gang of seven in the act. Ciarrocchi, then 29, was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. The priceless diamonds the gang were targeting were switched for fakes – and the plot has now been depicted in Guy Ritchie's The Diamond Heist on Netflix. Ciarrocchi now runs a reclamation site in Poplar, east London, with his model wife Elisabeth Kirsch, 49. 'I took a chance, I did something dumb,' he told MailOnline of the attempted robbery. 'I was young and I was stupid.' Ciarrocchi declined to take part in the Netflix hit but admits to 'forcing himself' to watch it. 'I know how the business works,' he said. 'They want you to tell your story and they're all over you for 20 minutes and you make out you were the mastermind of the operation, but I didn't want to get involved.' He added: 'Good luck to them, the police making out they were like the SAS and all that, but at the end of the day, we did a dumb thing, and when you do something as high profile as that, you're never going to end up in Spain with your feet up. 'The police are going to get you sooner or later – only in our case, it was sooner! The cops were so well informed, we were going into a suicide mission, we just didn't know it.' Ciarrocchi was forced to come clean to his daughters about his criminal past in 2020 when Ross Kemp presented a documentary about the robbery. 'We've raised two middle-class girls whose lives are as far away from my upbringing as you can imagine, but I just sat them down and told them the truth,' he said. 'It was sooner than I would have wanted to tell them, but that was unavoidable. I was an idiot and made a huge mistake. We didn't glamourise it and didn't try and make out it was clever.' Ciarrocchi was born to an Italian father and British mother in Bermondsey, south London. He left school with few qualifications and met his wife, a New York-born model, when he helped her move flat in 1998. She vowed to stick by him despite his imprisonment and the couple remain married to this day. 'You're wondering what an upper middle-class girl like me sees in a bit of rough,' she said after his sentencing in 2002. 'The fact that Aldo tried to steal the diamond doesn't outweigh all the good in him.' She added: 'I know that this is the last time he will be involved in crime.' Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Telegraph
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
The Millennium Dome raider who left crime for middle-class family life
One of the Millennium Dome raiders' comfortable middle-class family life has been revealed. Aldo Ciarrocchi was jailed for his role in the failed attempt in 2000 to steal the £350 million Millennium Star diamond from the south-east London venue. The 55-year-old is now a millionaire father-of-two married to an American former fashion model. Ciarrocchi was responsible for setting off smoke bombs as a distraction during the failed heist. But the Metropolitan Police had been tipped off by an informer and snared the gang of seven in the act. Ciarrocchi, then 29, was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. The priceless diamonds the gang were targeting were switched for fakes – and the plot has now been depicted in Guy Ritchie's The Diamond Heist on Netflix. Ciarrocchi now runs a reclamation site in Poplar, east London, with his model wife Elisabeth Kirsch, 49. 'I took a chance, I did something dumb,' he told MailOnline of the attempted robbery. 'I was young and I was stupid.' Ciarrocchi declined to take part in the Netflix hit but admits to 'forcing himself' to watch it. 'I know how the business works,' he said. 'They want you to tell your story and they're all over you for 20 minutes and you make out you were the mastermind of the operation, but I didn't want to get involved.' 'A suicide mission' He added: 'Good luck to them, the police making out they were like the SAS and all that, but at the end of the day, we did a dumb thing, and when you do something as high profile as that, you're never going to end up in Spain with your feet up. 'The police are going to get you sooner or later – only in our case, it was sooner! The cops were so well informed, we were going into a suicide mission, we just didn't know it.' Ciarrocchi was forced to come clean to his daughters about his criminal past in 2020 when Ross Kemp presented a documentary about the robbery. 'We've raised two middle-class girls whose lives are as far away from my upbringing as you can imagine, but I just sat them down and told them the truth,' he said. 'It was sooner than I would have wanted to tell them, but that was unavoidable. I was an idiot and made a huge mistake. We didn't glamourise it and didn't try and make out it was clever.' Ciarrocchi was born to an Italian father and British mother in Bermondsey, south London. He left school with few qualifications and met his wife, a New York-born model, when he helped her move flat in 1998. She vowed to stick by him despite his imprisonment and the couple remain married to this day. 'You're wondering what an upper middle-class girl like me sees in a bit of rough,' she said after his sentencing in 2002. 'The fact that Aldo tried to steal the diamond doesn't outweigh all the good in him.' She added: 'I know that this is the last time he will be involved in crime.'
