Astonishing inside story of the £100million heist of the century: How a notorious gang of robbers - dressed as cops and with their pet alsatian Buster in tow - infiltrated a fortress-like data centre to carry out the 'criminal Mount Everest'...

A new retelling revisits the extraordinary 2007 raid linked to career criminal Terry Ellis, centered on a heavily protected data centre run by telecoms giant Verizon. The operation has been framed as a £100 million heist and described as the kind of high-risk job Ellis later saw as the peak challenge of his criminal life.

According to the account, the gang approached the job with unusual audacity, reportedly posing as police officers as they moved on the fortress-like site. The story also stands out for its bizarre detail that the robbers had an alsatian named Buster with them, adding to the notoriety of a crime already portrayed as one of the most ambitious of its kind.

The background presented for Ellis traces his criminal path back to childhood in Camden Town. The snippet describes him and other boys looting slow-moving freight trains, sketching the beginnings of a long pattern of theft that eventually led to repeated prison terms and, later, to the data centre job that became central to his reputation.

What makes the case so striking is the contrast between the target and the method: a high-security communications facility allegedly penetrated by a gang using disguise, planning and nerve. Even in brief form, the story portrays the Verizon data centre raid as a landmark underworld operation tied closely to Ellis's name.