The remarkable true story of a modern-day Robin Hood, from Times feature writer Ben Machell
The true story of Stephen Jackley, a young man with Asperger's who decided to become a Robin Hood style bank robber in 2007. He committed ten robberies in England, and gave his haul to the homeless, but the police eventually caught up with him.
Was Stephen Jackley a cynical attention-seeker, or an idealist fighting a broken system, or something else entirely? Whatever the truth, his story - superbly written, and expertly reported - reveals the troubling place of finance in the centre of all of our lives