So who did it?
At the time £26.5 million seemed an awful lot of money. In this era of £400 billion bank bail outs it looks like loose change. But the Northern Bank raid was the biggest robbery in British criminal history and the collapse of the trial today poses serious questions for the PSNI.
The Chief Constable blamed the IRA and the "dogs in the street" are reputed to know everything. But whoever carried out the raid remains free, despite some of the proceeds of the crime turning up at the police's New Forge Country Club.
I noted recently that Sir Hugh Orde was probably polishing up his CV for Sir Ian Blair's job at the Met. The next day Shaun Woodward told me Sir Hugh was the very best. But if I were him I'd keep today's verdict well down the paragraph on "previous experience".
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