Royal Heist

EPILOGUE

ANTHONY DRISCOLL is still at large. He lives with a Spanish woman named Rosa. She works in a local restaurant, and he is employed as a night watchman for a local pottery factory.

JAMES WILCOX is also still at large. He is now married to Daniella and has a baby daughter. He continues to work for Daniella’s brothers, refurbishing holiday apartments.

CHRISTINA DE JERSEY divorced her husband after he was sentenced. He refused to see her or his daughters, encouraging them to start a new life. Christina subsequently discovered that he had placed $3 million in an account in the North Fork Bank in East Hampton, to be given to his daughters when they reached the age of twenty-one.

RAYMOND MARSH is still at large, now working for an IT consultancy company in New Zealand.

HARRY SMEDLEY was paid 10,000 pounds for his exclusive story in the News of the World based on his childhood memories of Eddy Jersey. His book was entitled My Friend Edward de Jersey.

ROYAL FLUSH went on to a stunning career, winning at Royal Ascot and Goodwood. He was then shipped out to Dubai, where he won the great Dubai championship. Returning to England, he suffered abdominal pain, sweating, and fine muscle tremors, and acute grass disease was diagnosed. He died never having been put to stud. Bandit Queen’s colt was Royal Flush’s only progeny.

BANDIT QUEEN’S colt was born safely in the United States. He was a healthy, magnificent foal and was later shipped to England to his new owners, Donald Fleming and Mickey Rowland. He was turned out to graze until he was ready to be trained. His photographs dominated the cell walls of the man who had bred him illegally, the man who, unlike most men, had seen his dream come true. That, in the end, had been the fulfillment he had always coveted.

CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT RODGERS retired from the Metropolitan Police after watching Edward de Jersey sentenced. He had spent many hours interrogating de Jersey and was pleased to see him go down, yet he remained dissatisfied that two of the robbery team members remained at large. As they were about to lead away the handcuffed de Jersey, Rodgers asked if he could have two minutes alone with him. He knew that even if de Jersey admitted it, there was little he could do with the information, but he asked him anyway. Was he the Mr. Big behind the Great Train Robbery and the Gold Bullion Raid? De Jersey looked Rodgers straight in the eye. After a long pause he smiled and held up his handcuffed hands. “You’ll have to wait for my autobiography.”