![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/inside-cursed-350m-diamond-heist-at-uk-tourist-attraction-built-on-bodies/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ac-designer-heist-offplat.jpg&description=IT was like something out of Ocean's Eleven. A criminal gang used a supercharged JCB digger to smash through security barriers at Britain's top tourist attraction in broad daylight to steal a £350million diamond - before making their getaway in a speed boat. The De Beers diamond heist at the Millennium Dome was set to be one of the biggest robberies in history before the plot was foiled by policeCredit: Ray Collins - The Sun Robbers smashed the 'impenetrable' glass housing the diamond - but it had been replaced with a fakeCredit: Discovery+ UK/Anna Wasiuta But this audacious plan wasn't a scene from a Hollywood heist movie. It was the daring real-life raid carried out on the Millennium Dome by a motley crew of local robbers. And if their shocking heist on November 7, 2000 hadn't been thwarted by police, it would have been one of the biggest robberies in history. Now former armed robber Noel 'Razor' Smith reveals how one of the ringleaders of the raid, Bill Cockram, told him in prison he believed the botched Millennium Dome heist was 'cursed' after two of the perps died. Noel, 61, tells The Sun: 'He told me, 'There's a curse on this job like Brink's-Mat, you know. We're all gonna die off'.' Noel features in a new Discovery+ true crime documentary series about the most daring and audacious robberies in the world, called Inside The Heist. The Millennium Dome in Greenwich, South East London opened to the public in 2000. Back then that area of the capital area was, according to Noel, a breeding ground for criminals. He claims the wasteland the Dome was built on was a popular "dumping ground" for weapons and even murder victims. Noel 'Razor' Smith was in prison with one of the ring leadersCredit: Chris Balcombe "It was such a dump up there. It really was," he recalls. "A lot of stuff that people didn't want found would be put there because nobody ever went out there. It was an ideal place to put it. "A lot of people did use it as a dumping ground. So there'll be bodies th){kind=link}
IT was like something out of Ocean’s Eleven.
A criminal gang used a supercharged JCB digger to smash through security barriers at Britain’s top tourist attraction in broad daylight to steal a £350million diamond – before making their getaway in a speed boat.
But this audacious plan wasn’t a scene from a Hollywood heist movie. It was the daring real-life raid carried out on the Millennium Dome by a motley crew of local robbers.
And if their shocking heist on November 7, 2000 hadn’t been thwarted by police, it would have been one of the biggest robberies in history.
Now former armed robber Noel ‘Razor’ Smith reveals how one of the ringleaders of the raid, Bill Cockram, told him in prison he believed the botched Millennium Dome heist was “cursed” after two of the perps died.