Lee Wenham Biography

Lee Wenham wanted it all and he wanted it straight away.

 

Born into a notorious traveller family with a long lineage of villainy and skullduggery, happy go lucky Lee was tailor made for a life of crime.

 

Unable to read or write, from an early age, Lee preferred stripping down engine parts and heavy goods vehicles to sitting in a classroom. His natural ability with machinery led him to his speciality: repurposing stolen plant machinery to carry out daring ram raids and armed robberies across the country.

 

A natural raconteur, he held court with notorious London underworld figures as well as TV celebrities, rock and pop stars. He lived the high life with expensive suits, designer clothes, fast cars and fast women. At just seventeen years old after watching James Bond emerge from the sea onto a Caribbean beach, he paid cash for a brand new white Lotus Esprit, just like 007’s.

 

In his tell all memoir that accompanies Guy Ritchie’s new Netflix docudrama, this lovable rogue talks candidly about his outlandish upbringing on an isolated farm, of his fearsome father and family firm, the women he loved and daring armed robberies he carried out to fund his extravagant lifestyle.

 

At the pinnacle of his life of crime, he recounts how he masterminded what was very nearly the biggest heist in British criminal history, a daring ram raid to snatch one of the world’s most expensive diamonds locked behind tight security whilst on display at the Millennium Dome.

 

Now a humble family man and landscape gardener, Lee looks back at his outrageous career with a wry smile, content to wait in line with everybody else,