Lost tape recordings reveal new clues in London’s 1952 mail van robbery

Newly discovered tapes have uncovered new evidence into an unsolved crime from the 1950s that saw the equivalent of over £7 million stolen from a London mail van.
Illustrated London News – Saturday 31 May 1952 (c) British Newspaper Archive
The Eastcastle Street robbery took place in May 1952 when a Post Office van was held up in London. At the time, it was Britain’s largest postwar robbery, and the robbers escaped with £287,000 (about £7.3 million today). The theft