Woman's Own

The world’s DUMBEST criminals

The Great Train Robbery, and those in Hatton Garden and the Northern Bank are just some of the UK’s most notorious crimes. Executed by a selection of history’s greatest masterminds, in some cases these heists took years of police investigation before they could finally be put to bed.

But sometimes, criminals don’t make it all that difficult for the police to catch their guy –

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