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The raid that rocked the Met: Safety deposit box raid could cost taxpayer a fortune
29 October 2009 The Daily Mail
The Finchley Road is one of the busiest thoroughfares heading out of London. It leads traffi c north past Lord's Cricket Ground and the multimillion-pound houses of some of the country's richest hedge-fund managers all the way to the M1. At three in the afternoon it's always pretty slow going, but on this particular summer Monday the traffi c was almost at a standstill.
This was partly because the normal three lanes going north had been cut down to one. But it was also because of drivers slowing down to a crawl so they could gawp at the massive police operation unfolding on a busy corner of the road.
