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AA: He gets
some advice from a financial advisor.
LLP: How he
loses his money is on the internet. He makes some very foolish and
greedy decisions.
People lost
millions in that internet crash. It was as big as Wall Street -
and there were a lot of people who committed suicide. It wasn't
necessarily hushed up but I think nowadays people think sod 'em
- they've lost 拢30m, but then they made it quickly.
They poured
in 拢4,000 and the next minute they're a millionaire, the next a
billionaire, so people were losing paper money.
But nevertheless
paper money means you go off and buy properties and the debts were
vast.
AA: After
all your books and drama series that you've written - many about
the criminal fraternity - were you ever tempted to try something
a bit dodgy yourself?
LLP: I think
I do it all the time, but there's big dodgy...
AA: ..But
you'd get away with it because you're smart.
LLP: I don't
know. The thing that always lets people down is that they think
they're clever.
The Great Train
Robbery...it's hard to believe but they had no evidence against
anybody, no clue.
They were so
well schooled those robbers but Ronnie Biggs - who was not Mr Big
in the Great Train Robbery - got a saucer of milk for a cat and
put it out and they got a thumb print, ran it through the computer
and: Ronnie Biggs. That little mistake - they had gloves on at all
times.
The bullion
raid - they've never found half the bullion. Half the people on
the raid are in the nick.
The diamond
dome robbery - I nearly had heart failure when that one was going
down. I thought there's my plot!
You are dependent
if you have chosen the life of crime. On the dome diamond heist
that was some robbery. If they hadn't have been tipped off they
would have gone straight thought the wall in the JCB.
What fascinated
me was although the police were tipped off, can you imagine all
those months, they were within inches of those diamonds. Logically
I'm thinking I'm going to hit a safe house with those diamonds,
how do I get away? I chose the river, so when I saw they also chose
the river, I thought there's another bit of my plot there, but I
think my plot is cleverer.
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