Brian Robinson

British armed robber convicted for the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery.

Editorial standard

the archive separates convictions, charges, allegations, acquittals and later media descriptions. Cross-links show documented or clearly contextual relationships and do not automatically imply shared criminal conduct.

Profile overview

British armed robber convicted for the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery.

Documented criminal context

This profile is built around convictions, formal court outcomes and well-sourced reporting. Where a person is linked to a broader criminal network without a court finding of joint conduct, the relationship is explicitly treated as contextual.

Why this person matters to the archive

The value of this profile is not only the biography. It is a graph node connecting people, organizations, events, places and cases so readers can move through the real structure of British organized crime rather than isolated articles.

Network links

– Brink’s-Mat robbery — participant; convicted – Heathrow, London — robbery location

Direct people links

– Micky McAvoy — fellow Brink’s-Mat robber – Kenneth Noye — later handler/laundering cluster – John 'Goldfinger' Palmer — later Brink’s-Mat gold cluster

Sources

– The Guardian. Brink's-Mat: Britain’s biggest gold robbery (2013-11-25). https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/25/brinks-mat-gold-robbery-30-years

Connected records

Documented network

Brink’s Mat robbery (event) is recorded in the canonical graph as participant convicted, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

Heathrow, London (location) is recorded in the canonical graph as robbery location, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

Micky McAvoy (person) is recorded in the canonical graph as fellow brinks mat robber, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

Kenneth Noye (person) is recorded in the canonical graph as later handler laundering cluster, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

John 'Goldfinger' Palmer (person) is recorded in the canonical graph as later brinks mat gold cluster, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

Timeline and case connections

Structured events are kept separate from general biography so later audits can update a date, conviction, organizational change, killing or court outcome without rewriting unrelated material.

Date not specified in current profile sources — Brink’s Mat robbery. participant; convicted

Status and record

The structured birth record lists 1942. The structured life-status field is alive. This administrative field should change only when a reliable current source supports an update.

Source record

The current Master package attaches the following evidence sources to this profile: – Brink's-Mat: Britain’s biggest gold robbery — The Guardian, Tier 2.

Each source supports only the claims tied to it. Structured source references remain attached so later audits can trace timeline and relationship records back to evidence.

Evidence and editorial boundaries

For living subjects especially, legal claims and current status require dated sourcing. Future expansion should therefore come from stronger records or newly processed canonical entities rather than unsourced crime lore.

How this profile fits the archive

The current source package includes Brink's-Mat: Britain’s biggest gold robbery. These records define the safe editorial boundary for the page. A later pass should prioritize new primary documents, court outcomes, dated organizational changes, prison history or newly processed books and screen works rather than adding generic background.

Research state

This depth pass expands the page from structured evidence already present in the Master. The profile should return to audit when a new source materially changes chronology, legal status, organizational role or media connections. Add the structured fact first, then update prose so narrative and knowledge graph remain synchronized.

Media remains a separate gate. A portrait should be attached only after source page, provenance and reuse status are checked. Until then, a profile can be text-complete while still carrying an explicit media-review requirement.

Archive discipline

A canonical page remains useful even when some biographical fields are unknown. The stable identity lets future cases, organizations, events, books and screen works connect to the same person without creating duplicates. Depth should come from verified edges, not filler.