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The Real Cops & Robbers
DOCUMENTARY
FEATURE FILM
TRUE CRIME
NON FICTION
In the game of cops and robbers, when the game has been won fairly respect is shown by both players.
Brief
"Cops Foil Million Pound heist on Asda" was the headline on a bleak Monday in January 2006, but we bring you the real story, from both sides. Ricky Watts, is now a retired career criminal and the former boss of the Walthamstow based Organised Crime group. Ricky and his partner in crime Sean Docherty, masterminded and executed what was at the the time the largest unarmed cash robbery in UK history, but the £862,000 the OCG had got their hands on, was to be short lived as Detective Superintendent
Jason Hendy from London's metropolitan police robbery unit better known as the Flying Squad was put in charge of a two year undercover operation that would bring down Ricky Watts and his gang. Watts, and Hendy also now in retirement, have gone on to have a underlying respect for each other, as they share the strange paradox that the biggest job of both of their careers is one of the same. Then born out of that respect we asked the question "would they meet on camera?' - they agreed.
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Cast
Jason hendy | self
ricky watts | self
mark bannerman | narrator
Willm clegg | self
andy blith | shaun docherty
louis cruzat | david kayline
shaun docherty | self
tony bowers jnr | young ricky watts
trevor watts | ricky watts
darren westover | chopper watts gang
paul wilkinson | chopper watts gang
Crew
Mickey cornwell | Director | Writer | Producer
Steve organ | director of photography
andy kemp BFE | editor
marcel somerville | music
Simon Cheung | cinematography
sean poe | sound recordist
phil maher | gaffer
marielle velten | assistant camera
douglas bunnage-flavell | assistant editor
boyd nagle | colorist
louis anthony bowers | location manager
sasha bardoville | covid supervisor
tony fithon | firearms controller
maggie cornwell | Producer
marie cornwell | producer
Sean mortlock | producer