As Ted Cunningham tells it, it all began almost 15 years ago. He got a phone call to say there was a red van in the car park of Farran Church across the road from his home. Cunningham was told to go the van and collect several bags from the back of it. The bags were heavy because they were filled with bundle upon bundle of sterling notes.  Did you ask the driver his name?  “I didn’t get talking to him. I just went to the van and said ‘I am Ted.’ He jumped out and gave me two holdalls.” …

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