Micky McAvoy

British armed robber convicted for his role in the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery at Heathrow.

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Profile overview

British armed robber convicted for his role in the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery at Heathrow.

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 – Brink’s-Mat laundering network — source crime for later laundering

Direct people links

– Brian Robinson — fellow Brink’s-Mat robber – Kenneth Noye — later convicted handler of stolen gold – John 'Goldfinger' Palmer — later alleged laundering/handling link; acquitted in bullion case

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 – BBC News. Brink's-Mat robbery remembered (2003-11-26). https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3234374.stm