Editing Brink's-Mat robbery (section)

===Gold===
Attempts by McAvoy to strike a deal to give back his share of the money in exchange for a reduced sentence failed, as by then the money had vanished.<ref name="grauniad" /><ref name="bbc2">{{Cite news |last=Summers |first=Chris |date=26 January 2004 |title=In search of thieves' gold |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3394087.stm |url-status=live |access-date=22 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610071807/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3394087.stm |archive-date=10 June 2011}}</ref> Despite a record reward of £2 million offered for locating the gold,<ref name=flaw/> much of the three tonnes of stolen gold has never been recovered. £1 million of gold was found stored at the Bank of England.<ref name=times92/> In 1996, about half of the gold, the portion which had been smelted and recast, was thought to have found its way back into the legitimate gold market, including the reserves of the true owners, Johnson Matthey.<ref name="independent1353688">{{Cite news |last=Coates |first=Sam |date=23 November 1996 |title=Whatever happened to Brinks-Mat? |work=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/whatever-happened-to-brinksmat-1353688.html |url-status=live |access-date=12 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925024830/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/whatever-happened-to-brinksmat-1353688.html |archive-date=25 September 2015}}</ref> According to the [[BBC]], some have claimed that anyone wearing gold jewellery bought in the UK after 1983 is probably wearing Brink's-Mat.<ref name="bbc1" /> The rest of the gold was believed to have been buried.<ref name="Whatever happened to Brinks-Mat?"/>

Lloyd's of London made a record insurance pay out of £26 million.<ref name=noyeguilty/>