Show Notes
A true story of crime, corruption and two impossible thefts. In 1965, the world's largest uncut diamond is stolen from the Natural History Museum. The man arrested is David Knight, a 24-year-old window cleaner who lived yards away. Josie Long tells the story of a man who may have been innocent when he walked out of Wormwood Scrubs but went on to pull off a famous heist that almost no one knew he was behind… until now.
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