The Gold BBC One: West Kingsdown and Kenny Noye's house feature prominently in episode two of Brink's-Mat bullion heist drama There's Something Going on in Kent
Rip-roaring Brink's-Mat bullion heist drama The Gold dives into Kent's 80s criminal underworld tonight.
Episode two of of the six-part BBC One series is entitled There's Something Going on in Kent, with Kenny Noye's home in West Kingsdown and Kent Police featuring prominently.
Noye, now 75 and living in the county following stints in jail, was sentenced to 13 years in 1986 for acting as a fence for the robbers.
He'd smelted down some of the £26 million of gold stolen from the Heathrow depot in 1983, mixing it with copper coins to make it all but untraceable.
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Tonight's episode makes another visit to Noye's sprawling mock Tudor mansion in West Kingsdown near Sevenoaks, which went on the market for £2.8 million in 2019.
Another scene shows two Met Flying Squad detectives chasing a Rolls Royce with a portable smelter packed into the boot.
They believed it was heading to wherever the stolen gold was stashed but lost the trail in a near-death incident at a railway crossing in West Kingsdown.
In reality they did indeed lose the tail but not in such dramatic fashion.
The real life Noye is said to be over-the-moon with the depiction of him, played by Scottish actor Jack Lowden. But the family of Stephen Cameron, who Noye murdered in an unrelated road rage incident on an M25 slip road at Swanley in 1996, have blasted the series' portrayal of him as a 'lovable rogue'.
In another scene, a Kent Police officer bumps into the Flying Squad detectives at a food van in West Kingsdown.
Later, during a game of darts he tells friend Noye he saw them near his home, tipping the gangster off that the net is closing.
Hugh Bonneville's DCI Brian Boyce makes a number of pointed remarks about his neighbouring police force throughout the episode, eager to limit their involvement in the investigation as much as possible so as to avoid details being linked to suspects.
The Gold is on at 9pm on BBC One.