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In News this Week: 1980: The Marlborough diamond was stolen from a London jewellers in a bold £1m robbery. The stone – worth £400,000 – was part of a window display at the Graff jewellery shop in Knightsbridge.

The two robbers, armed with a revolver and a hand grenade, got away in less than a minute with a total of £1,429,000 worth of diamonds. No one was hurt during the raid, and customers on the other two floors of the three-storey shop were unaware of anything taking place. However, within 11 hours of the raid the thieves – Joseph Scalise and Arthur Rachel – both Chicago Mob gangsters were arrested as they stepped off a British Airways plane in Chicago.

The men were extradited to England where they were tried and imprisoned for nine years, but the Marlborough diamond has never been recovered.

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