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title: "The Baker Street Heist: Britain's Most Mysterious Crime"
description: "The incredible true story of the 1971 Baker Street bank burglary, where a gang of small-time crooks tunnelled into a Lloyds Bank vault and sparked decades of conspiracy theories involving MI5, Princess Margaret, and police corruption."
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datePublished: 2026-07-28
dateModified: 2026-07-28
author:
  - name: Simon Whistler
    url: https://decodingtheunknown.pub/author/simon-whistler
publisher: Decoding the Unknown
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---

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The incredible true story of the 1971 Baker Street bank burglary, where a gang of small-time crooks tunnelled into a Lloyds Bank vault and sparked decades of conspiracy theories involving MI5, Princess Margaret, and police corruption.
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