You can tell Terry has old school values. He didn't grass on the other gang members and I'm sure the police would have offered him a less sentence for other peoples names involved. That has my total respect. Far play Terry.
Yeah so true and would of been quicker just getting hdd but they just wanted it all to be sure, they also had another specialist downloading all the server data on his laptop 💻 he the one that got the most precious information, but I'm a technician 25 years and i thought the exact same like the motherboard is pointless but I think the wanted the pentium chips and copy the technology or something maybe, deffo to do with the cpu they clearly had no idea how computers work
Great story, thanks, but they must have been stealing hard drives. There's no data on motherboards other than BIOS. Not to mention it's virtually impossible for 5 guys to remove 120 in 30-40 minutes.
These were Sun servers not PCs. Probably motherboards including Sparc CPUs and RAM. Probably also a lot were in spares cupboards. Probably out of the country by teatime. The stuff right at the end about mortgage data was rubbish and strongly suggests his role was limited to getting the team in and out, and that he'd no real idea of what was stolen.
Act like you belong. Social Engineering 101. Friend of mine was homeless for a while, found a bag left in the car park where he slept with British Telecom getup in it, put it on, flashed the badge showing a chubby middle aged Indian gent and hoping no-one would notice he was a gaunt 22yo white guy at the security guard at the local shopping center who gave him a swipe card to get into the staff only areas, and he spent the next three months living in their roof and crawl spaces, coming and going as he pleased 😂
One of the smartest dudes who had the minerals to pull that job off,, Good man terry mate god bless and I wish you all the best of luck for the future man,,
All to keep corrupt bankers from going down in the financial crash of 2008...obviously knew the whole thing was about to implode...i remember saying to a mate in 2006,best to sell everything you have,because with no young people entering the housing market, the market is in trouble...i saw it coming, and went harvesting around the World, people still have to eat!
Very interesting story Terry Your a proper staunch geezer what I really admire about you is you took it on the chin a lesser man would have done some deal and grassed the rest up like the dead man walking that grassed our firm up I remember spending time with you in Wandsworth prison you walked with your head up high no matter how long you were doing you were also very funny looking forward to seeing you soon
When you read reports of this robbery and trial, it wasn’t information/data that was being stolen, it was the value of the computer equipment. Thefts of equipment from data centres weren’t uncommon back then because the hardware was so valuable.
I know the old Royal Mail sorting office really well from growing up around there. Access via the canal where Granary Street doglegs 'round was always a piece of piss. Up the whole of Granary street it's easy to get in there, the side entrance also being a massive weak spot, but via the canal is surefire, you don't even have to get your feet wet, and that's from either side you can access the canal and bunk in over that side where the security is a lot weaker. Shame it's all changed and will never be the same, even in 2007 it was all over, really, compared the the '90s. 02:43 Come on mate, Holmes Road don't count, that nick is safe as houses from our pov and especially back then. Albany Street can't find their arse from their elbows and was about to be shut down, I guess you mean Holborn, but it's hard time in there, they're worse than Tottenham Court road used to be. They also have piss-poor response times, because they always get confused around Lamb's Conduit street. Too narrow for them. There's no Kings Cross nick apart from that "office" and the one by the old courthouse that only does the Geegees, it's obviously Islington Nick to worry about response time-wise there for that, even though it was under E division back then. It's easy to get out of there in vehicles, but again, over the canal and up into islington via barnsbury would be the best out of it, the railways work really well too via Belle Isle on foot.
It's one of these: 1) Terry is calling Hard Drives "Motherboards" and it is fine to make that name mistake. All data is stored on the Hard Drive and as long as he has those, all is well. 2) The dude who hired him has asked for the wrong components and caused a very risky yet useless job. In this case, (if the hirer dude was also hired) that dude is probably not alive. I can't see him making that kind of mistake if it was for himself. 3) The Motherboards were the Rolls-Royce of motherboards and extremely expensive. However, this is highly unlikely and in this case still think the job probably wasn't worth £100 M. 😂
In the words of Jimmy ‘The Gent’ Burke, “You did the right thing, never tell them anything and always keep your mouth shut” pretty daring robbery! I bet a lot of important people were worried about what’s on those mother boards, let alone the money that got transferred Do all computer parts not go to a huge dump in Ghana or somewhere? They are probs melted down by now, after all info was taken I barely know how to use an iPhone never mind mother boards etc lol
As good as he is, I'm sure he'll know eventualy, dirty money it evaporates or you end up getn burnt. If he applied those skills to a legit endeavour , easily make it succesful. Hopefully thats what hapens now.
I heard a similar story about a guy who was paid to "remove" hard drives years ago . He was never told what was on them and was not stupid enough enough to be nosey etc :-) . But it was all down to "Big " people wanting evidence destroyed . He also was known to torch lawyers offices and a forensic lab !!!
He got caught. Fair Enough. BUT the guys that plan these types of robbery are obviously highly intelligent. Couldn't their intelligence be put to something useful instead of or while they are in prison? These are guys who think outside of the box. They probably would enjoy any challenge presented to them.
He said motherboards because that’s what the people behind this wanted not hard drives. The information they wanted was on the Chips held by the motherboards
If you want a 59,000 rangerover buy a suit get a lap top drive away ,if you want to rob a place buy high vis vests and walk in . high vis and clip board your in any place . buy a volvo or xX5 .
I've been on building sites where unknown people came on site wearing high viz and hard hats, stole alot of equipment in 2 transit vans and not 1 person thought they was upto no good. especially if its a big site. no one on a medium to large site knows everyone thats working there no even the site managers as people come and go so often.
Motherboards do not store data, cpu's do not store data. Ram can store data, but it doesnt hold it. And certainly cant hold qauntities of data like the Gent alludes too. He may have confused the mobos with hdds, and if your not au fait with the insides of a PC then its entirley understandable.
@@JohnnyMotel99 these would have been server blades which contain a MB and all data is stored within the blade on chips no drives hence their value, and by doing this he probably allowed a load of crooked dodgy bankers get off scot free, i would have preferred that the bankers went down an not Terry
@@apocalypticweasel9078 I get it now. These blades can be quite large (I think) and the best have something like M2 memory modules? That could be why he said they used laundry bags for transport as the blades are big!
I can't help thinking there was some govemment involvment here, probably from the Security Service or GCHQ wanting to get their hands on the microprocessors.
Mugs game...unless you like doing time. I'd rather see my family grow and be skint than stare are 4 walls for years. Clever bloke though he's mustard wish him well
I can't remember the last time I heard someone recount a crime they'd committed without embellishing certain parts.. This was a great story and although most of it is already documented, i got the feeling what he tells here was all true. 👏
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You can tell Terry has old school values.
He didn't grass on the other gang members and I'm sure the police would have offered him a less sentence for other peoples names involved.
That has my total respect.
Far play Terry.
Hope Rockstar Games are watching this.
I would have been honoured to work with this lad. Proper professionalism is rare.
He probably only worked with other professionals though.
Yeah and hes ate more porridge than a jock on steroids
You wouldn't be honoured seeing him spilling every detail on youtube😂😂 hes a supergrass
Motherboards don'y hold manipulative data, Hard Drives do
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yeah but think of all the memory, too bad he powered it off :(
Yeah so true and would of been quicker just getting hdd but they just wanted it all to be sure, they also had another specialist downloading all the server data on his laptop 💻 he the one that got the most precious information, but I'm a technician 25 years and i thought the exact same like the motherboard is pointless but I think the wanted the pentium chips and copy the technology or something maybe, deffo to do with the cpu they clearly had no idea how computers work
Well, he is a career criminal not a Rhodes Scholar
Cisco systems catalyst
Respect for a brilliant job and great video.
mc d, go play wid yer maccy mate u know the bacon with red hair
Got to laugh at some of these comments thinking this guy's some kind of hero.
Go get your booster
Great story, thanks, but they must have been stealing hard drives. There's no data on motherboards other than BIOS. Not to mention it's virtually impossible for 5 guys to remove 120 in 30-40 minutes.
These were Sun servers not PCs. Probably motherboards including Sparc CPUs and RAM. Probably also a lot were in spares cupboards. Probably out of the country by teatime. The stuff right at the end about mortgage data was rubbish and strongly suggests his role was limited to getting the team in and out, and that he'd no real idea of what was stolen.
@@ramruma6330 probably
True masterminds, what a clever bunch of chaps
Best story I’ve ever herd mate bless you Bruv
Heard
Heard
Herd of what? Sheep?
Robbery/intelligent crime story. Had me at the edge of my bed 😂😂😂. Proper mad story this is
Best story my herd of sheep have ever heard
My mate walked on a site shouting at people about boots high vis hard hats then drove off in a JCB .
Act like you belong. Social Engineering 101. Friend of mine was homeless for a while, found a bag left in the car park where he slept with British Telecom getup in it, put it on, flashed the badge showing a chubby middle aged Indian gent and hoping no-one would notice he was a gaunt 22yo white guy at the security guard at the local shopping center who gave him a swipe card to get into the staff only areas, and he spent the next three months living in their roof and crawl spaces, coming and going as he pleased 😂
One of the smartest dudes who had the minerals to pull that job off,,
Good man terry mate god bless and I wish you all the best of luck for the future man,,
shut up
u fool
get up there bit more end up all were see is yer cheap boots hanging out his battie
you trying see he sort u out all that licking his arse he just laughing at ya you dope
Terry loves the sound of his own voice....
So would you if had done that ha ha
2:19 And when you actually get onto the server floor, they have velociraptors patrolling
Velociraptors *with machine guns*.
I like the precision! Loved to have grafted with this fella!
All about the details
What a story! Terry Ellis has more bottle and intelligence than anyone.
what an awesome dude !
@@deancarter981get down on one knee
Mother of all robberies! Truly audacious and fit for a movie!!!
Fantastic bit of graft lol dog when on the job too
It’s funny how many computer experts are making comments on here..
Great story nonetheless
Luv these stories just wish me and my mates had the brain to pull them off👍👍💪
All to keep corrupt bankers from going down in the financial crash of 2008...obviously knew the whole thing was about to implode...i remember saying to a mate in 2006,best to sell everything you have,because with no young people entering the housing market, the market is in trouble...i saw it coming, and went harvesting around the World, people still have to eat!
He's been making a film about it. Cant wait to see it
16 pairs of cuffs? For 5 fake officers? 😂 doesn’t look too dodgy?!
Thought this also one video key was on tyre, and this one its in the fuel cap
They probably had the zip tie version
Plasticuffs. Zip ties
How long did he get for that??
Loved the story!
Great story amazing heist. 9/10 👍
He knows his shit. OLD SCHOOL LONDONER
What is that sh*t about? Is he a hero now?Come on....
This guy here takes professionalism
Very interesting story Terry Your a proper staunch geezer what I really admire about you is you took it on the chin a lesser man would have done some deal and grassed the rest up like the dead man walking that grassed our firm up
I remember spending time with you in Wandsworth prison you walked with your head up high no matter how long you were doing
you were also very funny looking forward to seeing you soon
Likewise mate see you soon brother 💪
Some stroke don't think anything be done like that again one of a kind 👌🏻
You altered the world lad massive attack ! Is what it is!
Fucking amazing, his heart must of been coming out of his mouth ! Genius
I don’t understand how the drive they took would’ve been every any use to anybody, they would’ve been encrypted to fuck
Is this for real, or just a Ocean's 11 movie?
what's the big deal with motherboards?
Brilliant Top draw job, definitely worth a film script.
Legend… motherboard? Why? I guess they would have the ram. Must of had SSD forget the name the small chips that connect to the motherboards.
simms
I need this kind of excitement in my life!!! 😅😂
What data did they want is what I want to know?
SICK GUY.
THEY SHOULD PUT HIM IN MISSION IMPOSSIBLE MOVIE.
When you read reports of this robbery and trial, it wasn’t information/data that was being stolen, it was the value of the computer equipment. Thefts of equipment from data centres weren’t uncommon back then because the hardware was so valuable.
Oh wow. How much were they valued at? This man spent £100k on expenses alone for the job
Why motherboards and not hard drives? If data needed to be destroying what storage these motherboards have
I believe the components in them were very valuable for the time. I could be wrong
I know the old Royal Mail sorting office really well from growing up around there. Access via the canal where Granary Street doglegs 'round was always a piece of piss. Up the whole of Granary street it's easy to get in there, the side entrance also being a massive weak spot, but via the canal is surefire, you don't even have to get your feet wet, and that's from either side you can access the canal and bunk in over that side where the security is a lot weaker.
Shame it's all changed and will never be the same, even in 2007 it was all over, really, compared the the '90s.
02:43 Come on mate, Holmes Road don't count, that nick is safe as houses from our pov and especially back then. Albany Street can't find their arse from their elbows and was about to be shut down, I guess you mean Holborn, but it's hard time in there, they're worse than Tottenham Court road used to be. They also have piss-poor response times, because they always get confused around Lamb's Conduit street. Too narrow for them. There's no Kings Cross nick apart from that "office" and the one by the old courthouse that only does the Geegees, it's obviously Islington Nick to worry about response time-wise there for that, even though it was under E division back then. It's easy to get out of there in vehicles, but again, over the canal and up into islington via barnsbury would be the best out of it, the railways work really well too via Belle Isle on foot.
7nu
So smart he got caught.
Wow,that’s what I call riveting,and it certainly was...😬
Love to be a part of that firm enough respect pure class
Great bit off work gutted it came on top 4 you fella. 💚👊💥
How did old bill find out where you were?
F£CKING AMAZING STORY.. SHOULD MAKE A GREAT FILM.
It's one of these:
1) Terry is calling Hard Drives "Motherboards" and it is fine to make that name mistake. All data is stored on the Hard Drive and as long as he has those, all is well.
2) The dude who hired him has asked for the wrong components and caused a very risky yet useless job. In this case, (if the hirer dude was also hired) that dude is probably not alive. I can't see him making that kind of mistake if it was for himself.
3) The Motherboards were the Rolls-Royce of motherboards and extremely expensive. However, this is highly unlikely and in this case still think the job probably wasn't worth £100 M. 😂
In the words of Jimmy ‘The Gent’ Burke, “You did the right thing, never tell them anything and always keep your mouth shut” pretty daring robbery!
I bet a lot of important people were worried about what’s on those mother boards, let alone the money that got transferred
Do all computer parts not go to a huge dump in Ghana or somewhere? They are probs melted down by now, after all info was taken
I barely know how to use an iPhone never mind mother boards etc lol
All old iPhones are taken to a dump in Ghana and melted down
The only problem is... motherboards and 'chips' don't store data....
Brilliant, enjoyed that 👍
breaking bad walt
As good as he is, I'm sure he'll know eventualy, dirty money it evaporates or you end up getn burnt. If he applied those skills to a legit endeavour , easily make it succesful. Hopefully thats what hapens now.
I heard a similar story about a guy who was paid to "remove" hard drives years ago . He was never told what was on them and was not stupid enough enough to be nosey etc :-) . But it was all down to "Big " people wanting evidence destroyed . He also was known to torch lawyers offices and a forensic lab !!!
Probably Saville
"I'll take 'Made up stories' for $1200 please Alex".
They must of went through a lot cuffs for all those people
Probably used zip tie cuffs
Ye great job, got caught!
Terry's the lad.
He got caught. Fair Enough. BUT the guys that plan these types of robbery are obviously highly intelligent. Couldn't their intelligence be put to something useful instead of or while they are in prison? These are guys who think outside of the box. They probably would enjoy any challenge presented to them.
What’s his full name ?
Brian Charrington
@@TBATTIECYCLING That's a totally different person, this is Terry Ellis
I had a look in the description for you. It's Terry Ellis
Excellent story
Is the guy selling passports still alive?
Food got you caught 😢
Why is he saying "Mother Boards" What information is stored on an MB ?
Its the hard drive that has all the info.
With respect, I must say, They were criminals not IT technicians. We all know what he means. It’s better than saying “the computer thingies”
He said motherboards because that’s what the people behind this wanted not hard drives. The information they wanted was on the Chips held by the motherboards
@@geoffpj1 you're talking shit 😂 nothing is stored in motherboards, only hard drives have storage
' A Man wants to meet me on Hampstead Heath ' !
I'd be a bit suspicious ( George Michael ) know what I mean ?
Great story...... 👍
i grew up around him
More front the Myers😂
If you want a 59,000 rangerover buy a suit get a lap top drive away ,if you want to rob a place buy high vis vests and walk in . high vis and clip board your in any place . buy a volvo or xX5 .
I've been on building sites where unknown people came on site wearing high viz and hard hats, stole alot of equipment in 2 transit vans and not 1 person thought they was upto no good.
especially if its a big site.
no one on a medium to large site knows everyone thats working there no even the site managers as people come and go so often.
Fund k James Bond.What is motherboard?.
Sorta resembles vick mackey from the shield chasing the money train
That ended up tits up too didn't it
They were after the memory and processor's
Motherboards do not store data, cpu's do not store data. Ram can store data, but it doesnt hold it. And certainly cant hold qauntities of data like the Gent alludes too. He may have confused the mobos with hdds, and if your not au fait with the insides of a PC then its entirley understandable.
Facts I'm a technician and can confirm this is true 💯
120 hdd in 35 40 mins seems more to the point motherboard are useless they just wanted the cpus for the technology at the time
It’s great! Wtf is a mother board and why was it so important? 😮
Not very bright are you ?
@@Tom-uv7ry how rude! You’re clearly not bright
Exactly, why take the motherboard.
@@JohnnyMotel99 these would have been server blades which contain a MB and all data is stored within the blade on chips no drives hence their value, and by doing this he probably allowed a load of crooked dodgy bankers get off scot free, i would have preferred that the bankers went down an not Terry
@@apocalypticweasel9078 I get it now. These blades can be quite large (I think) and the best have something like M2 memory modules? That could be why he said they used laundry bags for transport as the blades are big!
What a great story
Wow absolutely amazing.... 😮... Top guy 👍
See a film here
Looks like bruce willis
bruce willis?
Wow, lmao if this was me I'd be like Robin Hood. The amount of people I could help with that much money. Nobody got hurt either.
love this stroy i pictured it all in my head legend i was in koh samui youd a loved it there ahaha
And ??
I can't help thinking there was some govemment involvment here, probably from the Security Service or GCHQ wanting to get their hands on the microprocessors.
20 bags but there’s 5 of them and the had 2 each so that’s only 10 bags 🧐
Mugs game...unless you like doing time. I'd rather see my family grow and be skint than stare are 4 walls for years. Clever bloke though he's mustard wish him well
Motherboards? Does he mean hard drives? Stealing motherboards for data makes no sense.
So much planning
So many points it could go wrong
Got caught tho, so wasn’t perfect job tho
All about detail
The burning question is … how much ?
£1m
With £200k expenses
Few holes in that story but I guess it’s all part of the show
Motherboards are worthless. What you want is hard drives, that's where the data is.
I can't remember the last time I heard someone recount a crime they'd committed without embellishing certain parts..
This was a great story and although most of it is already documented, i got the feeling what he tells here was all true.
👏
Tell the whole story and don’t tell us how long you got or how they come about nicking ya or anything u wolly
Go and ask them if they are alive no you won't so shut up
He literally said his mate got caught with the uniform and then they did a known associate check and the guard ID him. Think you’re the Wolly mate
@@panchh9228 and how did they know he was just walking down the street when they jumped on him you absolute melt
Muppet!
Boring.....
CCT.
& you done too much talking mate
Snitch
Is all this true ? If it is then Respect, or is it all just Jackonory 😂😂
Swearing is absolutely unnecessary
Its the chips they used to go for good money they got took all over the country good doe easy to steal
Boring