:00:05. > :00:08.Britain - whatever happened to Lord Lucan? The instructions were to
:00:08. > :00:15.make arrangements for John Bingham, also known as Lord Lucan, to see
:00:15. > :00:19.his children. And to do that, I had to to book his two eldest children
:00:19. > :00:26.on flights to Africa. We reveal startling new evidence on
:00:26. > :00:28.where he fled after the infamous murder in November 1974. I made a
:00:28. > :00:38.few enquiries around and it was quite obvious that people were
:00:38. > :00:44.
:00:44. > :00:47.aware that Lucan wasn't dead. on the Trail of the infamous
:00:47. > :00:50.Hawkhirst Gang, the smuggling Mafia that once ruled the Weald. On one
:00:50. > :00:58.occasion, there were supposed to be 500 horses carrying 11 tonnes of
:00:58. > :01:00.tea on one run. That is a fantastically big business.
:01:00. > :01:10.Natalie Graham with untold stories closer to home, from all around
:01:10. > :01:20.
:01:20. > :01:23.Hello. Tonight, we are on the Kent- Sussex border. I will be back here
:01:23. > :01:28.later but first, in a special report, we reveal fresh evidence
:01:28. > :01:31.which could solve one of the UK's biggest murder mysteries. Glen
:01:31. > :01:34.Campbell investigates the notorious Lord Lucan case and interviews two
:01:34. > :01:44.new witnesses who claimed the disgraced peer was smuggled out of
:01:44. > :02:08.
:02:08. > :02:11.Cold cases don't get any colder than this one, and they don't get
:02:11. > :02:21.any more mysterious, either. But when it comes to the passing of
:02:21. > :02:30.
:02:30. > :02:34.time, the truth has a habit of Now, this is a brave claim to make,
:02:34. > :02:44.but I think I can now tell you what really happened to Lord Lucan when
:02:44. > :02:55.
:02:55. > :03:05.he fled this house on the night of I've put Camilla and George to bed.
:03:05. > :03:20.
:03:20. > :03:24.Thanks, Sandra. Would you like a John Bingham, also known as Lord
:03:24. > :03:27.Lucan, was a desperate man. Separated from his wife, on that
:03:27. > :03:35.fateful night, he slipped into the family house here in Belgravia,
:03:35. > :03:37.intent on murdering her. But his plan went terribly wrong. He
:03:37. > :03:45.bludgeoned to death the family's nanny, 29-year-old Sandra Rivett,
:03:45. > :03:53.instead. Realising his mistake, he then launched a ferocious attack on
:03:53. > :03:56.Lady Lucan, as the couple's three children slept upstairs. But
:03:56. > :04:06.somehow, she managed to escape and pledge down the street to this pub,
:04:06. > :04:08.
:04:08. > :04:18.And that is when Lord Lucan, aristocrat, professional gambler
:04:18. > :04:19.
:04:19. > :04:24.and member of London's social elite, fled to friends in Uckfield, Sussex.
:04:24. > :04:27.And it was Uckfield in Sussex where the trail went cold. Lucan was
:04:27. > :04:32.never seen again. Officers from Scotland Yard scoured the
:04:32. > :04:35.countryside and coast for weeks. Lucan's borrowed Ford was
:04:35. > :04:42.discovered abandoned, with a length of lead piping still in the boot,
:04:42. > :04:48.here in Newhaven. The first theory was that the disgraced Lord
:04:48. > :04:58.committed suicide, throwing himself into the English Channel. But
:04:58. > :05:00.
:05:00. > :05:04.despite an exhaustive search, nobody was ever washed up. -- no
:05:04. > :05:07.body ever washed up. The second theory was that John Aspinall,
:05:07. > :05:08.casino owner and founder of Howletts zoo in Kent, together with
:05:08. > :05:14.Sir James Goldsmith, multimillionaire businessman,
:05:14. > :05:17.somehow smuggled Lord Lucan out of the country to evade justice. John
:05:17. > :05:21.Aspinall, for one, made no secret of his loyalty towards his old
:05:21. > :05:29.gambling friend, Lord Lucan. Here he is in a rare interview with the
:05:29. > :05:39.BBC just two years after Lucan had vanished. What I probably would
:05:39. > :05:41.
:05:41. > :05:44.have done, if he had appeared here, is anything that he wished.
:05:44. > :05:47.actually say, "if he had begged asylum from me, he would have got
:05:47. > :05:51.it". Even though, at that time, there were certainly grounds for
:05:51. > :05:53.thinking that he had murdered the nanny. At any rate, the police were
:05:53. > :06:03.looking for him. He would have got asylum regardless of the
:06:03. > :06:04.
:06:04. > :06:08.So, could John Aspinall be behind Lord Lucan's vanishing act? John
:06:08. > :06:11.Aspinall and Sir James Goldsmith are now both dead. Neither uttered
:06:11. > :06:15.a word in public about the role they played in Lucan's
:06:15. > :06:20.disappearance. But behind closed doors, both Aspinall and Goldsmith
:06:20. > :06:26.knew far more than they were letting on. And this woman was
:06:26. > :06:29.party to some of those secret conversations. She has asked that
:06:29. > :06:37.we change her name and conceal her identity, as she recounts the
:06:38. > :06:42.inside story as to what really Can you take me back to the casino
:06:42. > :06:48.business in the 1970s and 1980s? How did you come to work for John
:06:48. > :06:54.Aspinall? I was in my 20s - about 24 or 25 - and I knew nothing of
:06:54. > :06:58.him. I literally had come into the casino world by chance, at the Ritz
:06:58. > :07:05.Casino, and somebody said, "this man has opened a new casino - go
:07:05. > :07:14.for it". His secretary said, "Mr Aspinall would like to see you,"
:07:14. > :07:18.and at that point, I got got a little scared. But he was charming.
:07:18. > :07:24.A bit flirty with a twinkle in the eye and smile and, you know, a very
:07:24. > :07:26.charismatic person. Immediately put me at my ease. It was 1978 when
:07:26. > :07:34.Jill began working in John Aspinall's new casino, designed
:07:34. > :07:37.specifically for London's gambling aristocracy. The club had been set
:07:37. > :07:44.up to find his real passion - an extensive collection of wild
:07:44. > :07:47.animals, based at his private zoo, Howlett's in Canterbury, Kent. Lord
:07:47. > :07:52.Lucan had been missing for four years by the time Jill entered
:07:52. > :07:56.Aspinall's secret world. What sort of world was it? What were the
:07:56. > :08:05.clients like, what was your job? was the secretary - admin secretary,
:08:05. > :08:09.dealing with all the day-to-day memberships. And did he grow to
:08:09. > :08:14.trust you? I think he did get comfortable to trust me, and I was
:08:14. > :08:23.not really an enquiring sort of person. I just took things as they
:08:23. > :08:26.came. I was quite a loyal employee, I think. That's loyalty was soon
:08:26. > :08:34.reciprocated, and John Aspinall started inviting Jill into private
:08:34. > :08:37.meetings. Meetings where Lord Lucan was the main topic of conversation.
:08:37. > :08:42.Take us back, then, to these meetings that seem to be at the
:08:42. > :08:45.very heart of this story. Aspinall always had his desk with his
:08:45. > :08:51.favourite chair and if he was having tea, he would always come
:08:51. > :08:54.and sit on one of the sofas. Sir James Goldsmith, for some reason,
:08:54. > :09:00.whenever I was there, never sat down. He always seemed to be
:09:00. > :09:05.standing up with his cup of tea. I think they had been together
:09:05. > :09:09.talking for a while before they invited me. Instructions were to
:09:09. > :09:14.make arrangements for John Bingham - also known as Lord Lucan - to see
:09:14. > :09:22.his children. And to do that, I had to book his two eldest children on
:09:22. > :09:26.flights to Africa. I don't know the exact dates. It was between 1979
:09:26. > :09:31.and 1981 and it was two occasions that I booked the flights. It may
:09:31. > :09:40.be that they went more often but I didn't make those arrangements. We
:09:40. > :09:43.had to put that passports for the two older children. --duplicate. I
:09:43. > :09:46.did ask why Camilla, the younger one, wasn't going and it was said
:09:46. > :09:53.that she was on her mother's passport and they couldn't...
:09:53. > :09:56.Anyway, she was too young to travel on her own. So it was just the
:09:56. > :10:00.oldest two. They would go to Kenyan, to the treetop resort. They would
:10:00. > :10:03.have a little holiday there. As far as they were concerned, they were
:10:03. > :10:07.going on a safari type holiday, and they would also then fly internally
:10:07. > :10:10.to Gabon. At some point - and I believe it was in Gabon - their
:10:10. > :10:15.father would observe them and see them, which is what he wanted to do,
:10:15. > :10:18.to see how they were growing up and look at them from a distance. It
:10:18. > :10:22.was quite clear that he wouldn't meet them or speak to them, or make
:10:22. > :10:25.himself known to them. Because that would make it difficult for them,
:10:25. > :10:34.going back to their mother, if they had said, "I've seen daddy," or
:10:34. > :10:37.something. So that was it. Just trying to nail down on this bit of
:10:37. > :10:41.information - Sir John Aspinall made it very clear to you that in
:10:41. > :10:44.1979, 1980, Lord Lucan was alive and living in Africa. When he said,
:10:44. > :10:51."Lord Lucan wants to see his children, wants to send them out
:10:51. > :10:56.there," I believe that was the case. Did you realise that this was a
:10:56. > :11:00.huge manhunt? Lord Lucan was still, in 1979, the most wanted man in
:11:00. > :11:07.Britain. And here you are, arranging for his children to go
:11:07. > :11:13.and see him, furtively, over in Africa. I just had no idea of the
:11:13. > :11:16.enormity of it, as you say. It was just me doing the job. Amongst many
:11:16. > :11:20.other things that I did in that casino world, which are quite alien
:11:20. > :11:27.to me, and it seemed, in a way, quite a nice thing to do, to
:11:27. > :11:30.facilitate a father seeing his children. If I now put it in
:11:30. > :11:32.context of he was a murderer, or there was a murder committed, and
:11:32. > :11:42.Sandra Rivett's family have obviously suffered enormously, it
:11:42. > :11:51.
:11:51. > :11:54.But how do we know that what Jill is saying is true? Well, we've done
:11:54. > :11:58.some research and I can tell you that she did work for John Aspinall
:11:58. > :12:03.at this casino, here in Knightsbridge. And I can introduce
:12:03. > :12:06.you to this man. His name is Bob Polkinghorne and he is the former
:12:06. > :12:12.detective inspector in charge of the Lucan case file during the
:12:13. > :12:22.1980s. Now retired and living in Kent, we tracked Bob down, hoping
:12:23. > :12:23.
:12:23. > :12:25.he could shed more light on what really happened to Lord Lucan. This
:12:25. > :12:30.is the first time he's publicly divulged what his investigation
:12:30. > :12:35.unearthed. The chief superintendent contacted me and asked me to have a
:12:35. > :12:39.look at the Lucan case, to see if there were any fresh developments.
:12:39. > :12:42.Exactly what evidence came in while you were on the case? I made a few
:12:42. > :12:52.enquiries around and it was quite obvious that people were aware that
:12:52. > :12:53.
:12:53. > :12:57.Lucan wasn't dead. And the word was that he was in Africa. Lady Lucan,
:12:57. > :13:02.I am quite convinced, didn't think he was dead. In fact, she said to
:13:02. > :13:07.me, "he was a gambler. Gamblers don't commit suicide. They always
:13:07. > :13:14.win the next hand". Shortly afterwards, Bob received further
:13:14. > :13:18.confirmation that Lucan was indeed alive and well. This time, a
:13:18. > :13:23.sighting from a reliable source. An eyewitness who had followed one of
:13:23. > :13:27.Lucan's close acquaintances as he holidayed in Africa. He was
:13:27. > :13:30.surprised to see this acquaintance standing on a bridge. After two or
:13:30. > :13:38.three minutes, he was joined by another man, whom he is adamant was
:13:38. > :13:42.Lord Lucan. What did you do with this new evidence? Surely you
:13:42. > :13:52.needed to investigate it. Normally we put these in and it comes back
:13:52. > :13:53.
:13:53. > :13:56.and you get approval. But for some reason, I was then later told, a
:13:56. > :14:00.few days later, "just continue the enquiry. You haven't got approval
:14:00. > :14:08.to continue". Why do you think that happened? I have no idea. There was
:14:08. > :14:11.no information given. Did you take that sighting of Lord Lucan
:14:11. > :14:13.seriously? That one I thought was genuine. So, what do you think
:14:13. > :14:16.happened to Lord Lucan? definitely think he was spirited
:14:16. > :14:24.out of the country. I think his gambling fraternity friends
:14:24. > :14:28.spirited him out of the country. what new evidence have we managed
:14:28. > :14:30.to gather? Well, first of all, we have the testimony of Jill. John
:14:30. > :14:32.Aspinall's former personal assistant states quite clearly in
:14:32. > :14:35.an interview that she was instructed to send Lord Lucan's
:14:35. > :14:43.children out to Africa twice between 1979 and 1981, so that the
:14:44. > :14:46.disgraced peer could see them. On top of that, we have interviewed
:14:46. > :14:49.the former detective in charge of the Lucan investigation, Bob
:14:49. > :14:52.Polkinghorne, who states quite clearly that he had a very credible
:14:52. > :14:54.eyewitness account where Lord Lucan was seen in Africa in 1981, and
:14:54. > :15:04.when he asked for funds to investigate further, senior
:15:04. > :15:06.
:15:06. > :15:10.management at Scotland Yard refused. Did John Aspinall tells you where
:15:10. > :15:14.he had put up Lord Lucan? Where he was hiding him? No, it was never
:15:14. > :15:23.said as such. I presume that Mr Aspinall, possibly Mr Goldsmith,
:15:23. > :15:26.helped Lucan to get to Africa. As a hideout, I guess. There is a small
:15:26. > :15:29.bit of evidence, in a way, that leads you to believe that he is not
:15:29. > :15:39.alive any more and that involves John Aspinall's final months before
:15:39. > :15:46.
:15:46. > :15:49.he died. Could you tell me that story? I was told that nothing else
:15:49. > :15:52.would be said, but that at some point, Mr Aspinall would make
:15:52. > :15:57.another press release, in which he would state again that John Bingham
:15:57. > :16:01.was dead, and that he had murdered Sandra Rivett. And that would be an
:16:01. > :16:08.indication that he, indeed, was dead at that time. And what sort of
:16:08. > :16:12.coded message was that? How did it take its form? He simply said to me,
:16:12. > :16:18."with regard to some of the things you did, in terms of helping me,
:16:18. > :16:23.one of the things is the Lord Lucan case. I don't know what you know or
:16:23. > :16:27.don't know," to which I said, "I know very little". He said, "at
:16:27. > :16:35.some point, I will make another press announcement. You know how
:16:35. > :16:38.much I hate the press. I will say that it is my belief Lord Lucan is
:16:38. > :16:43.dead and I will also say other things about his guilt, and that
:16:43. > :16:46.will be a signal to you to know that he is indeed dead. And so if
:16:46. > :16:55.you want to speak about it after that point, it is entirely up to
:16:55. > :16:58.This, Jill believes, is what Aspinallmeant when he said he would
:16:58. > :17:01.give her a signal that Lord Lucan had died in Africa. It's John
:17:01. > :17:07.Aspinall's final interview which he gave to The Sunday Telegraph in the
:17:07. > :17:10.year 2000. Months later, Aspinall died of cancer. And it's taken Jill
:17:10. > :17:19.a further 12 long years to finally break the wall of silence that
:17:19. > :17:23.surrounded the Lucan mystery. quite ill a couple of years ago and
:17:23. > :17:26.had a lot of time on my hands and was reflecting life and such and
:17:26. > :17:30.one of the big influences on my life was John Aspinall, although
:17:30. > :17:35.perhaps I didn't understand it as much at the time. But in hindsight,
:17:35. > :17:38.do you wish that you hadn't sat on this information for so long?
:17:38. > :17:44.knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have sat on it for so long,
:17:44. > :17:47.definitely. It's only just starting to piece itself together and since
:17:47. > :17:57.actually opening up and talking to yourself, I have learnt a lot more
:17:57. > :17:57.
:17:57. > :18:02.about the case and the situation. Yes, there is some regrets.
:18:02. > :18:05.have you asked us to conceal your ID? We haven't paid you any money
:18:05. > :18:10.for this interview. You could have gone to one of the national
:18:10. > :18:16.newspapers and made thousands. don't want to make anything from it.
:18:16. > :18:20.I simply want to pass on a message, that is all. Has it sunk in now
:18:20. > :18:26.that you assisted in a conspiracy when a man who was wanted by
:18:26. > :18:35.Scotland Yard for murder was alive in '79 and 1980? I mean, does that
:18:35. > :18:38.worry you now? No, because I have got a clear conscience. It doesn't
:18:38. > :18:41.worry me. I mean, I wasn't assisting in Lord Lucan escaping or
:18:41. > :18:45.anything. As I say, I came into the picture sending children out to see
:18:45. > :18:48.this guy who I didn't know. I mean, it wasn't really all over the press
:18:48. > :18:51.in 1979 and 81 that they were desperately searching for the
:18:51. > :18:55.runaway Lord Lucan, so my conscience is clear and as I say
:18:55. > :19:05.all I want to do is pass on the information that I have to whoever
:19:05. > :19:32.
:19:32. > :19:36.Glenn Campbell with that special investigation. Now, we go back in
:19:36. > :19:46.time for a journey into a place with a violent and bloody history.
:19:46. > :19:50.Viewers of a nervous disposition should make a cup of tea. Now.
:19:50. > :20:00.I'm about to head into an area where - rumour has it - to look at
:20:00. > :20:00.
:20:01. > :20:03.someone the wrong way could get you killed. I've filled in all the
:20:04. > :20:07.relevant health and safety forms, and I've got a backup team on
:20:07. > :20:10.standby to get me out if I do get into difficulty. But the main thing
:20:11. > :20:13.I'm relying on today is this: If trouble starts, I'm not going to
:20:13. > :20:16.hang about. I'm also taking the precaution of arriving in broad
:20:16. > :20:21.daylight. But that's no guarantee of safety when you're heading into
:20:21. > :20:28.a place like this. That's right - Hawkhurst! Home to a greedy gang of
:20:28. > :20:31.brutal and murderous thugs. But, actually, for gang warfare and gun
:20:31. > :20:40.crime in this part of the world, anyway, I'm about 270 years too
:20:40. > :20:43.late. It may be a genteel part of the world now, but back in the
:20:43. > :20:46.early 18th century, this town was home to the notorious Hawkhurst
:20:46. > :20:53.Gang - local men who became fearsome smugglers and rode around
:20:53. > :20:56.Kent and Sussex as if they owned the place. You might have heard
:20:56. > :21:00.about them, you might have read about them, but now, you can follow
:21:00. > :21:04.in their hoofsteps thanks to a new trail that was the brainchild of a
:21:04. > :21:07.local gang of today - the Hawkhurst Partnership. The Queen's Inn is a
:21:07. > :21:10.good place to join the Smuggler's Trail. It's one of dozens of
:21:10. > :21:13.watering holes the Hawkhurst Gang used as a hang-out and a place to
:21:13. > :21:23.hide their booty, and where I'm meeting the Hawkhurst Partnership's
:21:23. > :21:24.
:21:24. > :21:30.not-at-all fearsome Yolanda Laybourne. Were you surprised about
:21:30. > :21:36.how many pubs on this trail? and no. I didn't think smugglers
:21:36. > :21:40.plotted and planned in the library or council chambers, but I was
:21:40. > :21:45.surprised to find a number of pubs and hostelries that are associated
:21:45. > :21:51.with smuggling. It is really a pub crawl, isn't it? It is a glorified
:21:51. > :21:54.pub crawl, yes. Never one to shirk a difficult challenge, I've decided
:21:54. > :21:58.to follow the trail and find out more about our smuggling past. So,
:21:58. > :22:01.after the Queen's Inn, my next stop is nearly a mile down the road, at
:22:02. > :22:07.the Oak and Ivy. Legend has it that both pubs were once connected by an
:22:07. > :22:10.underground smuggler's tunnel. A lot of the smuggling was associated
:22:10. > :22:18.with a particularly potent substance from foreign shores. It
:22:18. > :22:21.was a drug that many addicts craved on a daily basis. In the 1730s,
:22:21. > :22:29.when there was high unemployment and poverty in the countryside, tea
:22:29. > :22:32.was expensive stuff thanks to taxation. Just round the corner
:22:32. > :22:35.from Hawkhurst - in a house the gang would have passed on many a
:22:36. > :22:38.smuggling run - I've come to meet author Kent Barker. He says that
:22:38. > :22:48.smuggling tea helped make the Hawkhurst Gang popular with the
:22:48. > :22:48.
:22:49. > :22:54.locals, at least to begin with. People liked it. They liked cheap
:22:54. > :22:58.tea and brandy. There were very heavy taxes which were unpopular,
:22:58. > :23:05.mainly to finance foreign wars. So the smugglers were popular in the
:23:05. > :23:10.local community, up until about 1735, at 40, something like that.
:23:10. > :23:14.The government clamped down and put up huge rewards - �500, if you
:23:14. > :23:17.turned end a smuggler. The penalty for smuggling was execution, so the
:23:17. > :23:20.smugglers used whatever force was necessary to keep people quiet. To
:23:20. > :23:25.get some idea of how brutal the Hawkhurst Gang could be, I'm
:23:26. > :23:29.heading to the coast to meet smuggling expert Richard Platt. He
:23:29. > :23:31.says the gang murdered informers in all kinds of nasty ways - throwing
:23:32. > :23:41.them down wells, burying them alive, or, as this picture shows,
:23:42. > :23:43.
:23:43. > :23:48.literally beating them to death. They were a violent lot, and this
:23:48. > :23:55.tends to get overlooked in the whole mythology of smuggling - it
:23:55. > :24:00.tends to meet, they were jolly fine fellows. But we forget of their
:24:00. > :24:03.violent and murderous reputation. The Hawkhurst Gang were a brazen
:24:03. > :24:07.bunch, too. Just down the hill from the old Customs House in Rye is the
:24:07. > :24:09.Mermaid Inn, where the gang would sit and drink and store all kinds
:24:09. > :24:19.of smuggled goods, according to present-day proprietor Judith
:24:19. > :24:21.
:24:21. > :24:26.Blincow. Behind where I sit now, you could hide two people all goods.
:24:26. > :24:30.The fire is lit now, and the air would not have been very good, so
:24:30. > :24:33.it would probably have been good at this time of year. In the early
:24:34. > :24:36.days of the gang, there were only eight customs men for the whole of
:24:36. > :24:40.Kent and Sussex, so they were heavily outnumbered by the
:24:40. > :24:49.Hawkhurst Gang, who were said to be able to raise a crew of 500 men in
:24:49. > :24:55.just two hours. It took maybe 15 men to crew a boat, but to move
:24:55. > :25:04.that contraband of the beach could take maybe 100 or 150 people.
:25:04. > :25:09.Hawkhurst was on a direct route contraband was heading for London -
:25:10. > :25:13.that is where the market was. The smuggling gangs were inland gangs,
:25:13. > :25:16.because they controlled the routes to London from the coast. The gang
:25:16. > :25:20.relied on local farmworkers to help shift the contraband, and they
:25:20. > :25:24.relied on all kinds of buildings to store them in on the way to London
:25:24. > :25:28.- houses, barns, even churches. The Bo Peep in St Leonards was another
:25:28. > :25:35.popular spot for the Hawkhurst Gang. It was here - on Christmas night,
:25:35. > :25:38.1740 - that they landed 11 tonnes of tea. They hid it all in a barn
:25:38. > :25:41.near Hurst Green and went to an inn, where one of the smugglers just
:25:41. > :25:51.happened to look out of the window as revenue officers rode by,
:25:51. > :25:57.heading for the barn. He could then take a more on himself, so he
:25:57. > :26:04.rounded up another 30 or 40 people, road back to Hurst Green. By this
:26:04. > :26:08.time, the militia had got the goods. They had a cart laden with all this
:26:08. > :26:15.stuff. The smugglers overtook them, shots were exchanged, and the
:26:15. > :26:20.Revenue was killed. He died. The smugglers were not heard a tall,
:26:20. > :26:25.and they got their goods and took them away and succeeded in selling
:26:25. > :26:28.a successful run for them. For more than a decade, the Hawkhurst Gang
:26:28. > :26:30.ruled the region with terror. Goudhurst was yet another village
:26:30. > :26:33.where they spread fear and intimidation, growing more violent
:26:33. > :26:39.and more arrogant as their empire grew. By April 1747, the gang was
:26:39. > :26:42.behaving as if no one could touch them. But the people of Goudhurst
:26:42. > :26:49.decided they'd had enough, so they got together a local army, and here
:26:49. > :26:52.in the churchyard, they took on the Hawkhurst Gang. So this is my last
:26:52. > :27:01.stop on the trail, and author Chris Mcooey has agreed to meet me here
:27:01. > :27:07.at the site where the gun battle took place. The Hawkhurst gang said
:27:07. > :27:17.they would attack the village on the 20th, they said they would come
:27:17. > :27:18.
:27:18. > :27:22.from the East there, they said the time. Now that his arrogance. If
:27:22. > :27:29.the smugglers didn't come a long on the day and time from the direction
:27:29. > :27:33.they said they would! And they all drank. The shoot-out didn't go well
:27:33. > :27:37.for the Hawkhurst Gang. It left two of the smugglers dead and it even
:27:37. > :27:39.left bullets in the original church door. Two years later, the gang was
:27:39. > :27:43.no more. The ringleaders were hanged and their reign of terror
:27:43. > :27:47.was over. But today, if you know where to go and what to look for,
:27:47. > :27:50.you can still see plenty of signs that they were here. And it's hoped
:27:50. > :28:00.the trail will draw people from all over the country, eager to find out
:28:00. > :28:05.
:28:05. > :28:08.more about our rich smuggling Now, if you want any more
:28:08. > :28:11.information on tonight's show, you can visit our local Kent or Sussex
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:28:21. > :28:29.iPlayer. Coming up next week: Targeting the
:28:29. > :28:32.old and vulnerable. When the victim starts to say at not got any money,
:28:32. > :28:39.that is when they start to get more aggressive.
:28:39. > :28:43.A radical treatment for drug addicts. I am just so scared.
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:28:50. > :28:54.getting on? As they are chasing and stalking, one is the predator and