In February 2002, two men held up a security van at Heathrow’s Terminal 4 and made off with 4.6 million English pounds. The men attacked as security guards were unloading the money from a plane that had just arrived from Bahrain.

A month later, a similar heist occurred at the airport involving a plane that had just arrived from South Africa. The February heist was the largest ever at Heathrow. The area has been a hotspot for heists over the last few decades—in 1983, gold bullions worth £25 million were stolen from a Heathrow warehouse.