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The daring daylight robbery was planned down to the last second. And it landed Anthony 'White Tony' Johnson and his crew a £525,000 jackpot.

It was the largest-ever raid on a security van in Greater Manchester. Not bad for just over two minutes work.

But the robbery would also, allegedly, sow the seeds for White Tony's downfall in one of Manchester's most infamous gangland slayings. Said to to be a farily average, if slightly wayward young lad, Johnson was brought up by his grandma Winnie - the mother of Moors Murderers victim Keith Bennett - in her home in Fallowfield .

But after leaving school at 16 Johnson fell in with the notorious Cheetham Hill Gang , also known as the Hillbillies. As a white man in a predominantly black gang, he became known as 'White' Tony

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