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John Palmer headed to Tenerife with the profits from the robbery and began building a timeshare empire. His lifestyle had all the trapping of movie star status – a yacht, helicopters, classic ...
Feb 1, 2023 · John Palmer’s story is extraordinary, both in life and in death." — Livvy Haydock. Hit investigative podcast – and one of the most listened to on BBC Sounds – Gangster, returns for a new ...
Jul 3, 2015 · John Palmer arrives at court in 2001 for his trial for timeshare fraud. Photograph: Alex Slawther/Rex Shutterstock. There were no kisses for the jury this time. They may have taken a record 21 ...
John Palmer ran several jewellery shops in the Bristol area. The woman who leads a historical tour of a city suburb says people still find it hard to believe it was pivotal to one of the UK's ...
John McAuley Palmer (September 13, 1817 – September 25, 1900) was an American politician. He was an Illinois resident , an American Civil War general who fought for the Union , the 15th governor of Illinois , and presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party in the 1896 election on a platform to defend the gold standard , free trade ...
Jan 31, 2023 · The story of John 'Goldfinger' Palmer - a criminal who smelted the gold from the Brink’s-Mat bullion robbery and went on to mastermind the biggest timeshare fraud in history.
Born in Solihull in 1950, John Palmer had a tough upbringing. One of seven children in a dirt-poor household, he wore hand-me-down clothes, often went without food, and never learnt to read. But Palmer, whose father had allegedly been a member of the notorious 'Peaky Blinders' street gang, was determined to do well for himself, by fair means or ...
