I want to know the answer to the following question:
How long go did this crime take place?
All the background I'm provided with is that "He claimed to have carried out the robbery with two other men, although when discrepancies with a contemporaneous report in the Birmingham Post newspaper (the crime pre-dated written police reports) in his account of the means of entry and other items stolen, detectives decided there was no realistic possibility of a conviction and the case was closed.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no